I was in the exact same boat as you, but its pretty much there now. You can set a specific user group (i.e. Default) to have its recipes be public and then redirect index to that page.

Also I recommend upgrading because IIRC there’s a security vuln with that old version of Mealie

beets makes this mostly painless with quiet imports.

No problem. This is essentially what Sonos charges hundreds of dollars to do, but ends up costing ~$150 for the server and ~$35 per client device (using Pirate Audio + RPi ZeroW). One thing I neglected to mention is that if you happen to have Spotify Premium, you can set it up so that Snapcast becomes a Spotify Connect output

Ooh ooh, I know this one!

You could run Mopidy, which has support for Subsonic libraries. You could also run plain MPD.

Whatever you decide to go with can then be connected to Snapcast, which is a server/client setup for streaming audio from a source to multiple client endpoints (in this case your workshop, phone, PC, etc).

On devices that can run the client software, like a desktop or phone, you just run the Snapcast client software.

To connect stereo/AVR systems to Snapcast, you can build a streaming endpoint with a Raspberry Pi ZeroW with a Pirate Audio hat, or the version without the screen, and set up the Snapcast client software on it, and then connect it to your stereo system.

If you have a 3D printer, you could optionally print out a case for the client devices.

This is my setup, right down to using Navidrome as the Subsonic server and I couldn’t love it more!

Plus one for autofs, works so well that I often forget that certain files are actually remote resources

When What died I was on ratio watch despite seeding constantly

beets is a godsend for managing the file layout. If you need to make changes down the line it makes it super easy to migrate

Like another commenter said, Mopidy can do it all in one instance. It works, but I personally find its integration with MPD clients to be a bit clunky so I don’t use it all that much.

Personally I use Snapcast as an endpoint, plain MPD for local files, and navidrome for remote access to my library.

Snapcast supports Spotify endpoints, so I just switch to my Spotify stream when I want to listen to Spotify and to my MPD stream when I want to listen to local stuff.

This is more of an ecosystem than a single solution though, so it may not be what you’re looking for.