4 years in a row my dad got me Alexa machines for Christmas. I've since reminded him that I have plenty of machines and I don't really use them anyway.
I've set them up all around my apartment and use them pretty much exclusively to play Spotify all over my apartment (kitchen, living room, my office, bedroom, and sometimes my daughter's bedroom as well).
I've been wondering for a while, how much would it cost (and how would I go about doing this) to have a "dumber" system? My dream would be to have a hard drive somewhere with my music, and one device on a wall (or an app if we want to be fancy) to control playback, and maybe volume as well, and to have cheap speakers to replace the Alexas.