Nolli wrote: > i understand your doubts and concerns, i had it too. I used "volumio" > before (the same hardware, volumio acts as server and player). All in > all it went well with a maximum of ~20.000 titles. After enhancing the > database, the problems began. So i tried out to use plugins for > "miniDNLA" and "LMS" instead of the volumio buildin server. This > increased the performance dramatically. But i was completely unsatisfied > with the administration-tools available in volumio. Volumio is a nice > gadget for quick&dirty installation for many users with small libraries. > In a forum i heard about picoreplayer and that it is perfect for big > libraries using Pi as server and player. i began this adventure together > with my brother, who has nearly the same library and i predicted that we > will need a NAS at the end. i started with ~100.000 title->perfect, i > doubled the titles->perfect...so i tried out using my whole library > which contains nearly 400.000 titles. First i used the HD as the > cache-location. It went well. Than i tried out a partition on the the > SD-Card (mine is 32GB). I had the feeling that this enhanced the > performance again. > i have two samba shares, one for the sd-partition for backups of the > database (slimserver-directory has ~ 6GB) and one for my 4TB-HD hanging > on the Pi. I have a complete backup on a seperate HD not in use. I also > use LMS on my notebook with the exactly same 400.000 title library. > On the LMS i did not use one main directory for my library, but 12 > different directories. So i can push individual manually rescan of these > directories, which seems to be much faster. > So yes, i do the backup-job and synchronisation between notebook- and > Pi-library manually, but this is no problem using "Total Commander" > which i use since 20 years. > i understand that a NAS brings a lot of benefits (e.g. raid....) and i > often thougt about it, but i never saw the need of using one. You can > believe me, if i tell you, that navigating, seaching etc. is nearly in > realtime, sometimes some seconds but mostly only a fraction of a > second. > It does not matter which tool i use for operating. In most cases i use > just the web-Ui (material skin) as a shortcut on my tablet, but i also > have Squeezer, Orange Squeeze and BubbleUPNP working all well. As a > players i use picoreplayer on my Pi (using an Allo Boss), Squeezelite-X > for the PC and sometimes Chromecast if i want a big screen. It all is > working absolut perfectly as i never have expected. The only thing i > missed, was the missing artwork during navigation in music folders > (there are a lot of media-Databases where this is common) and that was > the reason i started this thread. > > kind regards > Nolli
Sounds like you know what youre doing. There are other benefits to having your music files on a NAS but for me the main ones are; Ability to easily access the files from any PC with any OS on the network. Ability to use the same files for more than one instance of LMS - this is a big plus when you want to commission a new server Remote Replication to another NAS and backup Redundancy and ability to increase storage without taking the system offline / re copying files VB2.4[/B] STORAGE *QNAP TS419P (NFS) [B]Living Room* - Joggler & SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 -> Celestion F20s *Office* - Pi3+Sreen -> Sony TAFE320 -> Celestion F10s / Pi2+DAC & SB3 -> Onkyo CRN755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - Pi2+DAC ->ToppingTP21 ->AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - SB Touch ->Sherwood AVR ->Mordaunt Short M10s Everything controlled by iPeng ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111430
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