[Leaplist] spreading music throughout the house via Linux

[Dan Cherry]

After several years of procrastination, I'm going to take another shot at 
delivering music to several rooms (5 including porch and garage) using Linux.

Amarok is currently handling the files, and I've got a line out splitter going 
to one other room (although the distance taints the signal, so not a good way 
to go, in general).  There's wireless in the house, and cat5 would be a pain, 
but not out of the question.

Powered computer speakers are acceptable quality in most of the rooms, but 
buying a pc for each room would be pretty pricey and the size might be a show 
stopper unless I use laptops or VERY small footprint boxes. 

I'd be interested in what others are doing to accomplish this.  Any 
suggestions for a cost effective way to get there - both hardware and 
software - would be welcome.

Thanks,
Dan