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Music Server or Laptop?

I’m looking for suggestions. I exclusively listen to my music collection ripped to FLAC from my laptop/Foobar--->DAC--->amp--->speakers. I’m wondering if there is a decent, no-frills, music server that I could use in place of my laptop or would I be better suited to just buy another, smaller laptop that I would use solely for music and maybe save a little bit of money? I’m just looking for something that I don’t have to have a wire running across my room all the time or it coming loose when I move the laptop when in use.  If it helps, I do not stream anything.  I prefer to listen to my own collection.

Thanks!
nicodemix
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artemus_5
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@matthewrudy et al. Just looked at daphile.com site. Is it an OS? The installation method makes it look that way. Or maybe an overlay, like windows was on DOS? Just curious. Seems like a good idea but I like to know the basics. Thanks
erik_squires
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Just looked at Daphile.

It is an OS image for x86 type servers. It is based on the Logitech Media Server / Squeezelite packages running on an real time OS for lowest possible jitter playback.

It is a similar idea to piCore.
Personally with the Raspberry Pi 4, I'm going to run Ubuntu on it, with LMS. Tiny and fanless.
erik_squires
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oops! Sorry, there is a version of Daphile with a RTOS, but that's not the recommended one.
vegasears
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Like mapman wrote:"Stick with the laptop.  No need for expensive proprietary music server hardware".  I have been doing home streaming for many years and have upgraded DAC 3 times.
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