What are the music sources?
Are you using this simply as a high grade "computer speaker" connected directly to your PC?

For various reasons I have never thought of my computer as the ideal 'player' for music. I have almost always used some form of external 'thing' to play/stream the music. At one time this was primarily Squeezebox, but now there are some Apple Airport Express in the mix, even an Apple TV box.

I can control the external music device(s) from desktop apps or browser, and of course the actual music files can be streaming from my computer hard drive.

Although I now use an external network storage drive so it does not matter whether the computer is running, rebooting, taken out of the house, whatever, music always available everywhere in the house.