I think thats probably where I got the idea from then. It will probably remain a pie in the sky thing for a long time though, as I haven't been nearly as serious as I used to about my music collection. Definitely not serious enough to even start coding something. Knowing that peter started with empeg code doesn't help either, though maybe if I drive down the street and ask Sigmatel, err Freescale nicely... :-)
For now, I do have uPnP and iTunes sharing enabled on my NAS, and it does share out the music nicely to the network clients for streaming. I'll have to look into Chorale, sounds handy for if I do ever get around to reripping all my music to FLAC now that I have the space.