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Some people might say DLNA, but trust me you want absolutely nothing to do with that disaster of a protocol and tech. I have tried off and on for _15 years_ to use different DLNA tech and every single time it ends in total disappointment and failure.

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I've got an external HDD with battery and its own small WiFi, it makes its contents available through DLNA. It works great, I usually connect through VLC or a gaming console.

I'm using DLNA to play music from my laptop it at the moment (pulseaudio sink, opus encoded) to a raspberry pi (gmediastreamer) that uses pulseaudio to upmix to 5.1 and play on a usb soundcard. It works, and the quality is good, but the lag is crap and I had to wrap everything in crappy scripts that would fix everything if it died. It's been in place for a year but I'd love to ditch it.

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