Thanks for the feedback. Let's see what I can help
1 - What do you mean physically edit the DnP Configuration file ?
2 - It's coming in future version
3 - Yes of course, the default ip is the localhost ip address. base_link is the must change setting for every musicbox.
4 & 5 & 7 - These have been taken care of
6 - This plugin is from TeknoSounds , I found a way for you to contact him
8 - I'm thinking of a media related playlist. Not a user's playlist but a preset playlist of all media that are related to each other.
9 - This option has to be omitted because every artist requires one query and a long list of artists will tremendously slow down the whole server.
10 - It is known that there is a more advanced new thread plugin being developed. You can see that example on the homepage of dnp network. It is running by the same ajax core system like musicbox.