music servers, remotes, etc..

[M-.-n]

Hi guys,

I'm currently brainstorming about the best way to achieve a the streaming of
music to my hifi. At the moment I'm running a little phillips streamium
connected to my amplifier and pulling the audio from a TVersity media server
in another room. It's pretty good with the only drawback being that the
searching capabilities are quite small and you need to be pretty close to
the device to be able to read anything from it. Pulling audio tho it's
great, although sometimes I wished I could grab my DS and tell the server
what to play.

The other solution (providing that I don't want a puter on my living room)
would be to use something like airport. I guess that in that context, the
perfect solution would be to run iTunes on the current server and control it
from a remote iPod (although I haven't seen if it was very convenient) but
I'd love to be able to stay off the apple.

Anyone with a nice setup ? Ideally I would like to have only one machine
running, even if I have loads of old lappy lying around, I'm not too found
of having to boot things to listen to music.

Thanks for any hints
Marc