NAS support on Soundbridge

I'm little bit confused about a statement Anthony Wood made on Mai 28 in the
thread "Soundbridge Questions.

> It is also true that the only audio only device that plays from NAS is the
> audiotron (although there are rumors that turtle beach has discontinued
> support for this product).   The Roku HD1000 can of course play music from a
> NAS, and at $299 it is the same price as an audiotron.

On one hand, I was told from Rokulabs support, that Soundbridge needs a
running server application to be able to parse a music library and access
the files. That server application could be iTunes with enabled library
sharing or a Slim Server.

In the AudioTron FAQ you can read:

>  Can I turn my computer off and still play AudioTron?
> 
>  You can, with something called Network Attached Storage (NAS), which is
> basically a hard drive with a power supply attached to your network. You can
> put all of your music files on the NAS and then turn off your PC because
> AudioTron will then stream the music from the NAS drive. As an added benefit,
> all of the music on the NAS server is also accessible from any PC on the
> network, as well as other AudioTrons on the network.

So it is clear, you can put your music on a NAS and play it with AudioTron
without the need to have a PC running.

With the information I got from Rokulabs support, you can put your music on
a NAS, but you must have iTunes or Slim Server running on the NAS, what most
NAS devices do not allow, or you must have a PC running these apps somewhere
on the network.

Andrews statement " The Roku HD1000 can of course play music from a
NAS" gives the completely different impression, that Soundbridge can parse
the music on the NAS without any additional apps running. Or did Andrew mean
Soundbrige can play music stored on a NAS but streamed through iTunes or
Slim Server from another PC?

Can someone clarify this?

The root of the matter is the question, whether you can use the Soundbridge
without the need to run a computer all the time or startup a computer every
time, just to be able to play music, which makes a big difference for the
usability of the product.

Peter