What spec does that old phone have? This'd be perfect for a kitchen media player for me... We've got a CD player/mini hifi thing in there and it's 3 floors away from the CDs. As I'm a lazy bugger and not want to be shifting stuff all over the house, streaming it from the network share would be ace. However... I've only got a very old Galaxy Ace lying around and I'm not sure if it'll be up to the job.

The phone is a HTC Sensation, I'll try and find out what the actual audio spec is. They did release a Beats version (Sensation XE) which was actually exactly the same spec, just CPU clocked a bit higher and came with some Beats earphones so I imagine the audio side of things is reasonable.

I bet the Galaxy Ace is more than good enough. First of all I'd copy some music to it and just try it.

Edit: If you want to use the Galaxy Ace as the music player but to also control then you'll need a music app rather than use aMPD.

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_ace_s5830-review-573p5.php#aq

:) ace, new project!