Streaming iTunes to Your Home Theatre

Anyone have any success streaming iTunes to your home theatre. I currently have Tivo that gets me to my music (but not the album art) and I have Roku Soundbridge that also gets me to my music but not my art work. I want to have my stereo play the music via either Roku or Tivo while having my TV display the alubm artwork or iTunes interface. My computer is NOT near my TV and I dont have an internal network so I would need a wireless solution.
Anyone know of anything?

Assuming all your iTunes music is stored as MP3s and that you are on a PC, then I recommend you try out Harmonium, Audio Faucet or Galleon. All three will stream music and I believe all three can support cover art in one fashion or another.
All three of these are Java applications and should work on a Mac, but still require the music to be in MP3 format.

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