Whole house MP3 server - software solution?

["Simon Mason" <simondsmason@xxxxxxxxx>]

I searched the group looking for information on this and couldn't find
anything recent.  Here is what I am looking for - a software solution
that allows me to run a media server (MP3 is fine, video would be nice
in the future), connected to my whole house audio solution (Nuvo),
remote control (probably through serial as most of my hardware supports
this) so that individual rooms can select their own playlists.  I
presume it would need to support multiple sound cards to support the
outputs in different rooms.  There are plenty of hardware solutions out
there but I can't find any software solutions (windows or linux) that
do this?  I can't believe I am the only person that doesn't want to
spend $3-5000 on a hardware solution to do this?