Now the flowers will grow

OP mentions librespot-auth not working. I have the same issue actually, can’t seem to get it to appear in any client on the home network

What makes you think that? Their website has instructions for installation via a Linux box. https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_start.html

Adding on to other suggestions, if you’re not aware of Ventoy it’s a very handy tool. Using it you can have a USB drive with several live images on it which you can choose at boot time. Great for quick testing, just drop an ISO in a folder!