All of my music is stored on .wav files and I run them to my preamp from my PC via a Xonar Essence STX sound card.
I would like to find a decent server without all the different streaming corporations embedded into the product. I really don't appreciate the sound of my fans in my PC competing for the "black space" between instruments and vocals.
I know I'm a bit old school (even had someone laugh when I told them I still listen to CD's), but I'm very happy with my system now and I'm just wanting to eliminate the fan noise.
I thought about building my own dedicated server, but I don't know how to code or program, so I'm a bit lost. Every search I do for a music server always results in a ton of streamers. That is not what I need. Before Roon, Qobuz, etc. were there any plain old SSD or HDD servers?