Cheap turnkey Linux server software for networks?

[Kal Rubinson]

1 hour ago, Mike Rubin said:

I can't resist taking a shot at Roon here, since this post is about my desire to disengage if I can approximate its "back end."  Roon isn't entirely useless to me because it sounds great and has incredible connectivity around the house, but, for my collection, the interface is a value subtract, not add.  As I mentioned in the original post, the "front end" can't identify much of my classical or jazz music, or misidentifies it, or can't find any additional data about what it identifies, or finds additional material that is mundane or just incorrect, or makes finding a Miles Davis album into a task because "Miles Davis" now is "Miles Davis" or "Miles Davis Quartet" or "Miles Davis Quintet" or "Miles Davis Sextet" or "Miles Davis Nonet." I can manually edit these thousands of albums, and have been doing so over a course of months, but editing could not possibly be more inconvenient or slow because of the need to poll the online database every time I change anything.  Add that the interface wastes valuable screen space and takes way, way too many clicks to move through data and I just hate using it.  If your collection is mostly pop or Diane Krall, I can see the value, but I really am not Roon's intended customer.

I agree and add that it is also more of a resource hog.  Beautiful, nonetheless.