If your AVR has an ethernet port, get a Linksys Wireless gaming adapter. Plug it into the ethernet port of the AVR and set it up to your wireless network. Works PERFECTLY!
If your AVR doesn't, you are going to need something that can sit next to the avr, receive the music from the wireless network, plug directly into the avr as a Aux (or whatever).
I recently purchased a Denon 3808 and have the wireless adapter hooked directly to it. I have my 500gig media drive across the room attached to my PC. I use a free program call TVersity as the server software. What's cool about this set up is I can beam flac audio files across the network to the AVR. Much better than MP3.