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No, this site needs no such thing. You are of course welcome to provide it yourself.

I, for one, am happy to have someplace I can go to escape.

There are many options. Here is one: https://www.picoreplayer.org/

It's in the name; Audio Science Review. Look at the byline "Audio, Audio, Audio". It's not Political Science (an oxymoron these days)...

I'd say "yes"; the Transporter was a state-of-the-art player in its day and was not inexpensive. Sound quality-wise, it remains very...

Creating a theme for foobar2000 does not require programming skill. The "Default UI" and alternative "Columns UI" are already highly...

Short answer: Yes Longer answer, it's digital and is sending the same bits it receives.

There would be no difference.

If you want native LMS/Roon support, you need at least the WiiM Pro at $149. The less costly WiiM Mini is limited to DLNA.

This seems quite cool, but in terms of value... surely a WiiM mini has it beat hands down? It's in the same ballpark as a rpi and...

I've used Raspberry Pis to stream local content via WiFi from my NAS server for years, first using Volumio and now piCorePlayer...

piCorePlayer/LMS is an option, but again you'd face the issue of no support for Amazon or Apple. It's free, though, and can run both...

Ok, we'll just leave it there then. Glad it works for you.

Interesting, but why?

I'd also look at the Orbit line of turntables: https://uturnaudio.com/pages/turntables I'd skip the "Basic", but from there up are...