My player is made of a TX motherboard,
16 Mb of RAM,
133 Mhz AMD CPU,
SB AWE 64,
S3 Trio 64V+ VGA card,
6,4 Gb hard disk,
and a IR. receiver:
Together with a slim line power supply from an old desktop 386 its packed into a standard 3 HE 19" case
 

Here you can see the inside of the player:
 
 

This is the rear view with the audio output connectors
You can also see the LCD and the IR. receiver attached to the front panel and the HDD removable rack visible
After some experimenting with network cards, serial and parallel cable connections.... i realized that the fastest and
simplest way to transfer mp3 files or edit the configuration of the player is to have 2 removable
HDD racks...one in the player and one in my PC.. :-)
 
 

                                                                                              A view of the front panel with the LCD

My combination of software which runs on the player:

Win 98 system files
Sound card driver
Mpxplay V1.42
MLTEXT tsr to run the LCD
Irdos to control the player

Here you can DOWNLOAD a boot image containing all the files necessary.
You can transfer it to a bootable CD rom,and together with some mp3-s you can make a player withouth hard drive.
You can allso use the same image to boot from floppy disk, or a hard disk.
It has universal CD rom driver which supports any ATAPI CD rom drive,
Sound blaster driver which supports SB 16,AWE 32 and AWE 64,
Mpxplay,MLTEXT configured for a 2x16 LCD connected to LPT1
and Dosir2pc IR. software configured on COM 2

You will need to unpack it and reprogram the remote control part to match your remote.

It can be done easily with a program called Winimage.It can be downloaded as shareware from their site.