Volumio
Will run on a dedicated raspberry pi and x86.
(dedicated means, the computer will only do this, nothing else)
Connect the sound out of the device to the amp and it will provide a web interface to directly control playback.
Music is not streamed, it can play files from a local disk, or from a network mount.
The free tier is 99% of what someone needs.
Moodeaudio
Same as above without fees, though explicitly only for raspberrypi and a limited number of SBC's
A key fundamental for any music is the metadata tagging and Musicbrains Picard is the best way to do this
Picard can automatically find the proper metadata for almost everything, and, can "scan" ripped from cd tracks and automate the naming and folder structure that a music library should be in.
And as others have said, rip to flac
Meta is not in the hardware business, they're in the software and data transport business.
The hardware is just an intermediary step while they wait for someone else to take on that burden
Syncthing can realtime monitor a folder that just has the keepass file and automatically update to any other syncthing enabled devices in near realtime.
Additionally it can be set to keep versions of the file so you can have copies of older versions to hand whenever things go wrong.
The only real catch is to not have the keepass db open on 2 devices at the same time as any changes made in one may be overwritten by the other as file locking isn't a thing in this method.
I've used Syncthing and keepass in this way for many many years
you might want to look into getting wordpress to generate static pages and only deliver the static html.
Overall using bloging tools that generate static pages is better than constantly requesting DB and dynamically compiling each page every time there is a request
this is a good take and probably an indicator of the direction the investors have been pushing reddit into
Which is all negated by the fact that reddit only exists because the user base creates and curates the content that other users want.
When that dynamic is removed reddit will just be another deflating has-been media site.
So basically, Reddit wants you to work for free, to moderate content provided to them for free by users and if you don't do it the specific way they want you to they'll kick you?
sounds like a recipe for success