That's great for the OZ users but does it work for us??
If by US you mean us (read my signature). Then no.
I have struggled with the older Sharp ROM compatible XMMS (version 3, I think) which I have working on my SL5500, and have had no sucess on the 6000. That is why I finally broke down and bought TkcPlayer. It works pretty well, although I prefer the simpler operation of XMMS (I don't need a big fancy library to choose tunes out of, I just want it to play a directory full of tunes). Also TkcPlayer doesn't do streaming audio, only off the local, or near local (read: NFS) drive.
I hope this helps,
Craig...