Streaming live audio via wifi to home audio system

I would like to attach a device to my stereo that would act as a wifi audio receiver and play whatever audio my macbook is currently playing.
Does such a thing exist?  Basically it should act like a wireless version of an audio cable that I would plug into my mac's audio out and into my stereo.
I can't tell if the airport express will do this.
I own a Roku and I know I can get it set up to play certain kinds of media files over the network, but I want the freedom to be able to play live streams over the internet from any number of sources.
I would accept being able to live stream from itunes, but only if it's a true live stream and not just letting me select itunes files.  (I want it to know where I am in a long podcast, for example.)
Thanks!

Just for completeness, airfoil + airport express indeed does exactly what I wanted:
- I purchased an airport express, a mini stereo->phono Y splitter cable, and the airfoil application from Rogue Amoeba.
- I configured my airport to join my existing network and plugged its audio out jack into my stereo receiver using the Y splitter cable.  At this point I could play itunes to my stereo by selecting the airport as the "speaker" using the little menu in the lower right corner of the itunes window.  (itunes found the airport express automatically)
- I launched Airfoil and told it to stream "system audio" (as opposed to the other choice of streaming from a single application), which required a brief install and reboot of some system level software, to my airport express, which it had located automatically.
Now I can stream any audio from my mac to my stereo, not just itunes!  Rock!
The only sadness?  If the Time Capsule supported an audio out jack I would not have needed to buy the Airport Express.
In the long run maybe it would have been smarter to buy an Apple TV.

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