MP3/OGG Sound Server?

One of the hardest things about Debian is to find a program to do a task. I KNOW Debian has the program -- finding it is the tricky part.

What I'm looking for is a sound server. I don't know whether this would be called a "streaming sound server" or not. Let me describe this and hopefully you can clue me in to the name of the program I'm looking for.

Right now we use XMMS to access MP3 and OGG files on my file server via NFS. But NFS eats up some pretty serious bandwidth and CPU, and it also means that we have several different songs being played at the same time because multiple XMMS clients are accessing the music files.

What I'd like is more of a client/server approach. I see a daemon running on the server which someone could REMOTELY tell the daemon to load a M3U file and to play the songs in the M3U file.

Then I imagine some client program accessing a port on the server and getting music.

Does anyone know of such a beast? I have to think that someone has created this type of server and I imagine it's already packaged for Debian.

If anyone would care to educate me on the topic of sound servers I'd be a willing student. :-)