You could look at MinimServer it runs on a few platforms... I run it on a MacBook Pro as well as a Windowz Custom i7700k where I have my local music files... A Lumin U1 mini on a wired LAN along with WiFi... The Lumin U1 mini is in front of a Chord Qutest DAC... Can access local files on both PCs from an iPhone Lumin app, from Roon and Audirvana on both PCs... Will probably go with a Synology NAS next and put all the local music files there too... Life is great...
The trick seems to be to move to a thin client thick server topology to separate the electrical noise created by a standard pc from the DAC by adding a network transport device, call it a thin client, purpose made to not do much more than transporting data from a network and presenting to a DAC...
The trick seems to be to move to a thin client thick server topology to separate the electrical noise created by a standard pc from the DAC by adding a network transport device, call it a thin client, purpose made to not do much more than transporting data from a network and presenting to a DAC...