My home server does lots of things people here have already mentioned that they do. So what might be unique to me, I run about 4 streaming radio stations, personal to me and my LAN. One is a long-off-the-air local gospel station that used to play some really weird shit. So much of it was singers who were way out of tune. I’m really glad I recorded a month of it before it disappeared. One is a 12 GB collection of techno and other electronic music my friend M gave me. I call it “M Radio.” It took about 10 years of listening to really get to know the collection, but having it as a streaming radio station really helped. One is an archive of about 15 years of the “Mysterious Universe” podcast, playing in a loop. Whenever I want to hear some good storytelling, I tune in. The fourth is a live stream of my local campus radio station, with a secret radio receiver in the city that sends the stream back to my location where the FM signal isn’t so strong. I stream it at a very high fidelity. I have a Squeezebox Boom in my kitchen with preset buttons on it that can call up any one of these “stations” at will. I love it!