BillG
Major Contributor
The music server experiment went better than I'd anticipated it to: there's so much music being streamed all over the house right now, all from my PC, via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet that I'm starting to lose track... 
The photos below are from experiments and stress testing I did with my setup (the server PC, 3 Android devices, and a Chromecast attached to a television whose analog output is being fed into a Sony soundbar) this evening: There were 3 active streams being served from my PC at the time, although I suspect I could have initiated several more without running into bandwidth problems as transcoding wasn't necessary as the client software and devices all natively support the formats I use - that being AAC, MP3, and occasionally FLAC. And just for fun, I had one of the Androids streaming into an integrated amp via Bluetooth...
I've been testing the following for the last few days on my Windows 10 computer and it works well so far...
P. S. It's freeware and comes with numerous renderers pre-configured.
https://www.universalmediaserver.com/
The photos below are from experiments and stress testing I did with my setup (the server PC, 3 Android devices, and a Chromecast attached to a television whose analog output is being fed into a Sony soundbar) this evening: There were 3 active streams being served from my PC at the time, although I suspect I could have initiated several more without running into bandwidth problems as transcoding wasn't necessary as the client software and devices all natively support the formats I use - that being AAC, MP3, and occasionally FLAC. And just for fun, I had one of the Androids streaming into an integrated amp via Bluetooth...
I've been testing the following for the last few days on my Windows 10 computer and it works well so far...
P. S. It's freeware and comes with numerous renderers pre-configured.
https://www.universalmediaserver.com/
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