wireless was found and setup with no work...x took one reconfigure and then a followup addition of XFCE since gnome has decided to make older machines obsolute with its resource intensity)...I gave up on the smb music feed and am running off of the backup removeable drive for the party...playlist is now at a manageable 95 hours of no repeat...with a couple of surprises here and there (and everywhere and everywhere)

Should be good.