agree with all of that, but if the music library includes a load of Apple Lossless files for iPod / iTunes / iPhone reasons, then LMS can cope with them on Windows if iTunes is also installed. I don’t think it can handle them on Linux, or at least couldn’t last time I looked.
It’ll play the ones you rip yourself, just not the purchased ones I think. Indeed didn’t Apple get rid of the DRM a while back?
no idea 
see previous disclaimer
I don’t think anything handles paid for iTunes downloads does it? Plex doesn’t
Annoyingly, the £10 pi case that could also fit a 2.5 ssd doesn’t fit the pi 4b.
I quite liked the idea of a ssd and a pi in the same small box. A 1tb drive would be enough and they’re not that expensive.
I think I’m overcomplicating things.
I can just get a pi in a simple box, running LMS, then one of these, right?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074DXPS6B/ref=twister_B083YKJ5XL?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Is this a decent choice of NAS?
Please note: The My Cloud Home device can only be accessed via the Internet, the My Cloud Mobile App, the My Cloud Desktop App or the WD Discovery
I have zero experience of this product, but it sounds a bit odd. Personally I’d go for something more flexible that they didn’t feel the need to warn me about.
In the grand tradition of recommending what you own, I use a DS118 which is about as simple as it gets. The current version appears to be this
which is very flexible and costs £35 more than the WD.
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Thanks. I didn’t spot that about the WD. I was actually looking at the Synology one as well.
I think other people here run LMS on their NAS, but a) I don’t understand this and b) the cheapie Synology ones probably don’t have enough horsepower to do this.
I know that for ultra-simple you can just plug a DAC straight into the Synology and play music using its Audio Station software
https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/audio_station
Yeah if you get the Synology, you wouldn’t need a Pi, it will almost certainly be able to install LMS directly on to it if you don’t want it in the same room as the DAC, or as @Gyroscope said, plug straight into the DAC.
You can just plug in an HD to the Pi, and set it up as a samba share. That’s what I do. Depends what is able to be hard wired via ethernet really.
Ok, thanks. Hadn’t thought of that. Performance would be similar?
Doubt you’d notice too much performance drop. LMS is lightweight and will run easily on weedy NAS boxes. The Pi will be faster but there’s a limit as to how fast you can get LMS to run.
Much more than 2Gb RAM is a waste, but you can run on less.
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Does this mean I’ve missed the boat for LMS on the synology?
This doesn’t sound very optimistic
and as the guy talking about Docker says, only on the higher end models, not the absolute cheapest.
Docker on a NAS 
I run Docker on my NAS, it’s awesome.
Just get a Pi and and plug an external HDD into it then. More flexible ultimately.
Having a more powerful thing is always better, when it’s a chunky database. You do want a snappy response; I don’t think that even a pi 4 is OTT.