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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oops! Sorry, there is a version of Daphile with a RTOS, but that's not the recommended one.
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.