Way back in the Napster days before streaming services were a thing, I'd ripped all of my CDs to MP3 and had a bunch of live stuff from P2P networks. I wanted

Way back in the Napster days before streaming services were a thing, I'd ripped all of my CDs to MP3 and had a bunch of live stuff from P2P networks. I wanted to listen to this stuff at work, but technology of the time was either CD based or limited to 16-32 MB of solid-state memory. At the time, Microsoft had some live broadcast streaming service built into Windows 2k server that would allow you to stream audio from the computer, so I put together a web front that allowed me to build and save a WMP playlist file along with controls for to start/stop WMP, causing it to re-read the file. The result was that I could listen to my own music on any device capable of receiving streamed audio, and could control it on anything with a web front end.