Music Libary on USB stick

[Downunder55]

How well does putting all the music collection on to a USB stick work, I can get the library down to around 90GB (MP3 - 320kbps).

128GB USB stick are starting to get affordable.

I have successfully run a 4GB USB stick but wondered how a larger 128GB device would go ?

[kgc210]

Don't see why it wouldn't work.
I have a 100GB 1.8" ZIF drive plugged into the USB port.
Would be cheaper to use a 1.8" drive or cheaper still 2.5" Hard drive.

[Downunder55]

Tried a couple of USB 2.5 drives directly into the Pi USB but with no success, they work fine through a powered hub so assumed the Pi doesn't have enough power to drive the disk as I can't hear it spinning.

Hopefully with just the 128GB stick, a USB wifi (roll on beta 3) and a HiFiBerry it will have enough power for these three !

Will also make this quite portable.

[junaling]

I have a 240G msata drive connected via a powered usb hub, I took the 2 usb ports off and wired the hub directly into the pi. I added the partition in fstab so that it's mounted and scanned at boot time. Working well so far.

See my build here: lego-t196.html

[nworbetan]

I have a pair of 1TB hdd attached to my Raspberry Pi via a usb hdd dock, I've added /dev/md0 to /etc/fstab, and now reading and writing to /media/md0/music works as expected with FileZilla.

My question: Is there a way to get Rune Audio to play the mp3s that are mounted locally on my Raspberry Pi?

To me, http://runeaudio/sources.php looks like the obvious place to find an option to add specific folders to the database, but I've just started using Rune Audio today and I could be looking in the wrong place pretty easily.

[wick]

Hi,
I assume you have to have an ext4 or ntfs or fat formatted disk, right?
(So, in particular, a mac-formatted disk/partitio would *not* work)
thanks

[skris88]

I have a 80gb SSD drive on a USB adapter.

Funnily enough FAT32 is not an option, but that may be because it is an (old) SSD drive (while in Windows).

Works fine (read and write) whether formated in NTFS or exFAT on a Windows PC.

But whether NTFS or exFAT it is not recognized by RuneAudio on my Raspberry Pi 2.

Anyone with a solution?

Thanks!

[hondagx35]

[skris88]

Thanks Frank, much appreciated.

Got this response...

login as: root
root@192.168.0.112's password:
=============== RuneOS distribution ===============
____ _ _ _
| _ \ _ _ _ __ ___ / \ _ _ __| (_) ___
| |_) | | | | '_ \ / _ \ / _ \| | | |/ _` | |/ _ \
| _ <| |_| | | | | __// ___ \ |_| | (_| | | (_) |
|_| \_\\__,_|_| |_|\___/_/ \_\__,_|\__,_|_|\___/

================ http://www.runeaudio.com ================
RuneOs: 0.3-beta
RuneUI: 1.3-beta
Hw-env: RaspberryPi 2


Last login: Fri Sep 30 06:21:23 2016 from 192.168.0.111
[root@runeaudio ~]# pacman -S fuse-exfat
warning: fuse-exfat-1.1.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) fuse-exfat-1.1.0-1

Total Download Size: 0.02 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.07 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

AND GOT THIS RESPONSE

:: Retrieving packages ...
error: failed retrieving file 'fuse-exfat-1.1.0-1-armv7h.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@runeaudio ~]#


OF COURSE. THE
warning: fuse-exfat-1.1.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
IS CLEAR

But if exFAT support is "up to date", why can't my device see my SSD?

Wait, I'll try exFAT on a "normal" (8GB) USB stick drive.

jUST DID.

That isn't recognized either And USB AutoMount is enabled.

Here is my Debug capture.
http://pastebin.com/Ayrw1YGZ

THANKS!

[hondagx35]