ITunes SHaring and airport setup

What exactly do i need in order to:
Be able to stream any of my music on my NAS to my Amplifier downstairs that is basic no network connectiviy?
Am i right in saying if i get a say Intel 3 or core 2 duo Headless PC hidden away somewhere with XP or Win 7 be better then  load itunes onto this load up all my music onto this either by a network drive or i may just plug in a 1tb usb drive.
Then downstairs buy an Airport extreem plug the jack into my phono of my amp.
THen from my ipad / iphone i can then control my itunes to play to the airport extreem/amp?
Is this right or any better solutions?

iTunes Sharing will affect bandwidth just as would any other network traffic. The impact can be estimated by multiplying the bit rate of the shared music by the number of people listening to a shared library. For example, if 10 people are listening to 128 Kbps tracks from other people's workstations, that would be about 1280 Kbps of network load. That wouldn't have much impact on a 100 Mbps network, but 1000 users sharing clearly would. So whether iTunes sharing is causing your performance issues will depend on how many of your users are listening to shared music. If it's just a few, that's probably not your problem unless they're sharing tracks with very high bit rates.
To block sharing, you can either turn off Sharing and Look For Shared Music at each workstation and lock them off using the Parental option in iTunes (Preferences -> Parental) or you can just block TCP port 3689 which is the port iTunes Sharing uses.
Hope this helps.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

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