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• on-demand streaming, you can play your media over a LAN or the internet using only a web browser and a player
• on-the-fly transcoding
• Jukebox Mode
• When your computer is connected to your stereo set or a hardware jukebox device, you can use Jinzora to send your music to that device
• Jinzora can automatically tag and organize your media collection and download song lyrics, album covers, artist pictures, biographies and reviews to complement it
• The advanced built-in authentication system offers administrators a flexible way to control access for individual users or user groups.
• user and media statistics, logging, RSS feeds, and an open API to access from third-party software.

• AAC
• M4A
• Midi
• MP3
• MP4
• Ogg Vorbis
• RM
• WMA

• on-demand streaming, you can play your media over a LAN or the internet using only a web browser and a player
• on-the-fly transcoding
• Jukebox Mode
• When your computer is connected to your stereo set or a hardware jukebox device, you can use Jinzora to send your music to that device
• Jinzora can automatically tag and organize your media collection and download song lyrics, album covers, artist pictures, biographies and reviews to complement it
• The advanced built-in authentication system offers administrators a flexible way to control access for individual users or user groups.
• user and media statistics, logging, RSS feeds, and an open API to access from third-party software.

• AAC
• M4A
• Midi
• MP3
• MP4
• Ogg Vorbis
• RM
• WMA

• on-demand streaming, you can play your media over a LAN or the internet using only a web browser and a player
• on-the-fly transcoding
• Jukebox Mode
• When your computer is connected to your stereo set or a hardware jukebox device, you can use Jinzora to send your music to that device
• Jinzora can automatically tag and organize your media collection and download song lyrics, album covers, artist pictures, biographies and reviews to complement it
• The advanced built-in authentication system offers administrators a flexible way to control access for individual users or user groups.
• user and media statistics, logging, RSS feeds, and an open API to access from third-party software.

• AAC
• M4A
• Midi
• MP3
• MP4
• Ogg Vorbis
• RM
• WMA

You can do that with a third-party application called Orb. You can use Orb to stream from PC to Wii, as well as other game systems and some PDAs. Orb is Windows-only, unfortunately, but there's a Linux alternative called Jinorza.

According to this site, you can you use Jinzora to stream MP3s to your Wii. Haven't tried it myself though, since I'm running AMPache on my server, which I haven't gotten to work with the Wii Browser so far.

I know you don't seem to like the 4-layer approah, but you should check out Jinzora. Several of us have been setting up music servers at home recently based on that. Granted you still have the 4 layer issue, but the upside is that it is fairly easy to create custom playlists (and save them for later), the search bar will search on song info or even downloaded metadata (is there cover art on the iPod? with album descriptions? With band art? with band descriptions?), and you also have various types of lists built as you listen to music. i haven't used it long enough to know if it visibly keeps scores on everything, but it seems fairly solid already, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was in the future (if it'snot already in there).
Also handles jukebox or streaming and I believe that podcasts are either just around the corner or somethng we overlooked (since none of us have an iPod but I was persuing the code).
When I finally get time to set up my Myth box I fully plan on putting Jinzora on the backend server as well. one of my friends already has it setup and is a few parts away from integrating it into his house system. He's tying the RF remote in and basically will be routing the jukebox to the upstairs and outdoor receiver via optical, then tying in the other computers in the house simply by setting them up to stream. Ripping all his CD's in flac (it will auto-transcode for you).

My fiancee has an iPod, she hasn't seen this yet but I'm betting she'll like a central music server of losslessly recorded musc a lot betterthan the 20GB of music she can carry now...especially considering it has a web interface and you can configure your own key bnds forthe interface (which means that binding, say, an RF remote to the interface is going to be much much easier).

Anywas, completely OT but it was the first thing I thought when I read your post :)
Oh, linky for easier access: http://www.jinzora.com/

* dislaimer: I am in no way affiliated with this product, except for having posted on a forum once about apiece of debug code they accidentally left in a release. So, like I said, not affiliated :P

I run Mythtv AND Freevo on the same box. Mythtv has some great recording options, freevo has a "browse files on drive" philosophy which works well with my movie and music directories. A different X session for each and a little flipping in between and I've got the best of both worlds. I'm also running Jinzora2. It can be persnickety, but it generally does the job as a web based jukebox for playing music at work from home.