Told you it could be done with a PIC and the Micronas mp3 decoder.

Taken from the WWW site http://www.slimdevices.com
   Display: Noritake 40x2 VFD
   CPU: Microchip PIC16F877 microcontroller
   Ethernet controller: Crystal CS8900A 10Mbps embedded Ethernet chip
   DMA controller: proprietary logic, Xilinx XC95144XL
   MP3 decoder: Micronas MAS3507D
   DAC: Crystal CS4334, 16-bit 44Khz
   Buffer RAM: 1Mb (8 seconds at 128Kbps)
   ROM: Rewritable flash program memory, EEPROM configuration memory
   IR: Standard 40Khz IR receiver
   Power supply: comes with 5V 1600mA power supply, player uses 700ma (max)
Protocols
   DHCP, ARP, IP, ICMP, UDP
   Support for subnets/gateways (see documentation section on WANs)
   Open UDP-based streaming and control protocols
Firmware
   Open-source, high-speed, embedded IP protocol stack
   Written entirely in assembler, for performance and compactness
   General-purpose architecture offloads most of the application to the server side - new features can be added without making changes to the low-level firmware (protocols, device drivers)
   Integrated boot-loader program includes its own copy of the IP stack and necessary drivers, so that the entire MP3 player application may be reinstalled over the network.



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