Hi;
Now that I have put together my first Pi LMS (fun!), I am thinking through how to handle the library, and I thought I would ask some opinions from others that have done it. let me explain, see the picture... 26532 I originally was running LMS on a windows machine with the library on an internal HDD. I manage the library with Media Monkey. I currently am backing the library (along with all my other files, photos, documents, etc) on a WD USB hard drive. The WD does a "smart backup" (automatic). I put together a PiCore player as a LMS only, with a USB HDD to store the library. I have retired the windows LMS. The PiCore LMS is connected to the windows computer via ethernet, although I will be working on another system where the connection will be wifi (pi LMS to windows computer). I have players (touch, boom, radio, receivers) connected via both ethernet and wifi. All works good. I have Samba setup (but no very little about it). So, when I built the picore LMS I just copied the library from the windows computer to the PiCore HDD, anxious to get the hardware working. Now that it is working I am trying to figure out where to maintain the library and how to back it up/share it. Some options: 1) Maintain it on the windows computer and mirror the drive to the PiCore (how?). The backup would still be from the windows computer to the WD 2) Eliminate the windows files and just maintain it on the PiCore LMS hard drive. Maybe just rip/download to windows drive (or not), but run media monkey on the piCore drive? Also, point the WD backup drive to the library on the piCore LMS 3) something in between, or something I haven't thought of? It would be nice to have something "slick". It doesn't necessarily need to be automatic. Data transfer, library scan speeds are a consideration. Some thoughts would be appreciated. Please note that I am relatively new to pi and an electronics guy, not a linux or IT guy. Jim +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: picore LMS Library.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=26532| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110007 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
