I’m surprised not a lot of people suggest LMS now days. I’ve been using it for years and I highly recommend it for streaming your library, locally or remotely. Poor man’s sonos with multidevice sync as well!
It has an active community and a variety of very useful plugins. Heck, I use it as a Spotify frontend as well.
Just make sure to use the material UI plug-in linked above, a lot of people get bumped out with the built in ui upon first install.
Sometimes I feel the same.. I’m around your age, same years of experience.
Between work, family and obligations, the little time left is not for coding or side projects.
I don’t have much advice to give unfortunately, only an observation. I think this is what happens on an average person when your hobby becomes your work. I noticed last time I switched jobs and I had a 2 month gap, the urge for tinkering and coding came back.
In the meantime, my time off went to other, new, hobbies outside of technology.
I’m certain that if I was to make a career switch, after a while, the tinkering urge would come back.
You should look into Logitech Media Server (open source with community forks/support).
You can install it on your NAS, I have it on a synology.
It also supports syncing music with multiple devices at a fraction, if any, of sonos or similar costs.
There is a plethora of plugins available including an AirPlay bridge to stream to your Apple tv.
You can use the excellent iPeng app (paid but recommended) as a phone remote (and even a source with an IAP).
I use the LMS ecosystem to stream from my NAS to my linux workstation (using squeezelite), to my tv/speakers on an nvidia shield, to my phone via iPeng and to another chromecast.
It has an active community and a variety of very useful plugins. Heck, I use it as a Spotify frontend as well.
Just make sure to use the material UI plug-in linked above, a lot of people get bumped out with the built in ui upon first install.