Using a PC running iTunes as remote speakers

I have two Airport Express in my house, which are great for playing music in different rooms remotely, powered by my primary PC in my office. However, I also am buying a PC for my living room to put above the fireplace. There is no room for another set of speakers for another Airport Express there, and I don't want to buy another one. What'd I'd like to do is use this new PC running iTunes as a set of remote speakers, recognized in iTunes like the Airport Express speakers. That way I could play the same music at the same time in many rooms of my house.
Does anyone know how to do this?
If not, consider this is a feature request, i hope Apple will give it consideration.

Hello.
Any feature requests can be submitted to the following links below
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
http://www.apple.com/feedback/airportexpress.html
*With Airtunes you are able to stream music to multiple speakers meaning
1. Multiple Airport Expresses connected to Multiple speakers
2. Multiple Expresses connected to Speakers & also hearing the audio from the computer it is broadcasting from.
Now the bigger question I believe you are asking is can other computers pickup on this broadcast of sound?
Never tried it myself. I am not aware of iTunes being able to pickup the broadcast from the speaker selection in the bottom right hand corner. I am aware of it being able to broadcast it's sound to other speakers on the network though.
Hopefully other users can post their thoughts and how they got this to work. At this current time I know you can connect multiple expresses, and have it broadcast throughout the house based on where each express it is and the speakers they are connected to.

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