If you just want to play music locally without hassles, there are a slew of music apps that can do it for you, my personal favorite is Musicolet.

If you wanna get fancy you could always spin up your own music server with navidrome, and combine that with the android app Symfonium (what i currently do). If you don’t like the idea of always streaming your music, for example if you have bad internet service outside your home, you can temporarily or permanently cache music to your phone.

Im not a plumber and I definitely see the issue

Audiobooks saved my sanity when I had a 2hr commute at my last job. Highly recommend listening if you don’t have the space (mental or literal) to read books normally!

The first thing I do when setting up new Windows environments (for work) is to install Notepad++. Fuck Microsoft.