I’m surprised not a lot of people suggest LMS now days. I’ve been using it for years and I highly recommend it for streaming your library, locally or remotely. Poor man’s sonos with multidevice sync as well!
It has an active community and a variety of very useful plugins. Heck, I use it as a Spotify frontend as well.
Just make sure to use the material UI plug-in linked above, a lot of people get bumped out with the built in ui upon first install.
Sometimes I feel the same.. I’m around your age, same years of experience.
Between work, family and obligations, the little time left is not for coding or side projects.
I don’t have much advice to give unfortunately, only an observation. I think this is what happens on an average person when your hobby becomes your work. I noticed last time I switched jobs and I had a 2 month gap, the urge for tinkering and coding came back.
In the meantime, my time off went to other, new, hobbies outside of technology.
I’m certain that if I was to make a career switch, after a while, the tinkering urge would come back.
You should look into Logitech Media Server (open source with community forks/support).
You can install it on your NAS, I have it on a synology.
It also supports syncing music with multiple devices at a fraction, if any, of sonos or similar costs.
There is a plethora of plugins available including an AirPlay bridge to stream to your Apple tv.
You can use the excellent iPeng app (paid but recommended) as a phone remote (and even a source with an IAP).
I use the LMS ecosystem to stream from my NAS to my linux workstation (using squeezelite), to my tv/speakers on an nvidia shield, to my phone via iPeng and to another chromecast.
My main problem was the very bad build quality of the laptop it self. I'm used to mechanical keyboards, I never got used to the c720 one.. The screen is also really bad. Given the price tag it's hard to complain though.
I finally put chromeOS back and gave the laptop to my SO. I got a used x220 in perfect condition for a bit more of the c720 asking price. I replaced the screen with a new IPS bought from ebay.
Best linux laptop I ever had.
It has an active community and a variety of very useful plugins. Heck, I use it as a Spotify frontend as well.
Just make sure to use the material UI plug-in linked above, a lot of people get bumped out with the built in ui upon first install.