Playing streaming audio using Airport

I have a iMac4 (10.4.11) with an AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x89). I also have an Airport "box", plugged in to the wall, and connected to the back of my stereo. iTunes plays without a hitch through the stereo, but baseball season is coming and I am trying to figure out how to stream audio (not coming through iTunes) via Airport to my stereo. Hope that's not too convoluted!
Can this be done? Must I resort to fuzzy AM signals?

This can be done with a low cost utility called Airfoil - see:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/

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