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For a number of years, I have been accessing the music stored on my various Macs via Logitech's Media Server and a Squeezebox Touch. It has always worked well (I have never used the Squeezebox's built-in DAC, and have always connected with outboard DACs via coat SPDIF) except for two things. The first is that the Squeezebox has a tiny screen almost invisible from across the room next to my stereo system, and secondly, more than once, Logitech's Media Server has been broken by an Apple system upgrade. The last time, it took Logitech almost 9 months to make the server software work with the latest system. I went back to playing CDs during that 9 months. I have tried several times to find a solution; the latest being an AURALiC Aries, which I hated because I thought that it sounded terrible! How, you may ask, can something that merely stores digital music files for playback through an outboard DAC; the same files that one ripped from their own CD collection and haven't been changed by even one bit, make those same files suddenly sound bad? I have no idea, but it certainly did! Finally, when High-Sierra (System 10.13) came out I decided that I couldn't allow two upgrades on my OS pass me by. So I contacted Logitech and asked them if High-Sierra killed Media Server 7.7.7. The answer I received was not encouraging. Logitech said that they didn't know whether or not Apple's latest system upgrade broke their Media Server, because they no longer support the product and that there is no one left at the company who could modify the code to fix it, if the new OS did break the server software! This has forced my hand. Earlier this year, I purchased, off of Craig's List, a used 2011 17" MacBook Pro, in perfect shape for $200. I then replaced the 200 GB HDD (7200rpm, BTW) with a 500GB SSD and install the then latest OS on it (10.12 Sierra) and copied all my music files from my home office Mac to the MacBookPro via FireWire (with the laptop in the "target" mode) and installed JRiver Media Server 23 on the laptop. I knew that I knew that JRiver had several remote control solutions available and I thought that I would use JRemote on my aging, but still viable 10-inch iPad Series 2. Unfortunately, when I went to download it, It told me that I needed to upgrade to iOS 10.0 in order to install the app. Well, at some point after Apple released the Series 2 iPad, they switched processors and with iOS 10, they left the older, original processors behind. Frustrating, but that's computers for you! Recently, I had bought a new smartphone and this one ran Android 6, so rummaging around in JRiver's web presence, I found that they had an Android app called "Gizmo" that did the same thing as JRemote does on iOS and I downloaded and installed it. The next problem was that I wanted to use the Mac laptop headless. IOW, I wanted it connected to my Yggdrasil, but I didn't want or need to see the screen. The Android remote app, took care of being able to see what I was doing. Problem. If you close the Mac's lid, the Mac goes to sleep. It even goes to sleep when you access the "Power Saver" System Preference Panel. I knew that there had to be some way to operate a MacBook with the lid closed After all, there are lots of users who have only laptops and when using them at home, connect a full size keyboard and an external mouse, and a large display and operate the laptop as if it were a home computer with the lid closed. A quick call to Apple Support told me that Apple had no workaround solution to that problem, but there was a third-party freeware solution called "Insomniax for Mac". I downloaded and installed it, and then after to playing with the machine's Power Saver preferences and the "insomniax" options I got it to never go to sleep. If you don't do that, after some period of inactivity the Mac will go to sleep and the Gizmo Android remote can't wake it up unless the checkbox "Wake Up For Network Access" is checked and both sleep settings are set to never! Everything works perfectly. I only wish that Apple hadn't abandoned those combo 3.5mm phone plug/Toslink connections on their laptops. I'd much rather use SPDIF to connect the MacBook Pro to the Yggdrasil that USB! I hope this helps anyone who is contemplating a similar journey!