10-16-2024, 07:26 PM
Hello All, I'm moodeblue and I've just got moode audio up and running on a RPI4. So far so good, my initial goal was to have a touchscreen "jukebox" (raspberry pi with touchscreen 7") that friends could walk up to in my pool room and select different songs from my library and add them to a queue.
I have the library directly accessing my NAS media/music folder which is split into sub folders for artists, compilations, soundtracks, etc.
I was also reading that there is uPnP/DLNA functionality that could access my jellyfin server (set up on the same NAS, accessing the media folder). I opted against using this feature as I came across some discussion about album art not showing up unless it was embedded, and about duplicate entries in the tree structure. Admittedly some of what I was reading was a bit foreign to me, but I believe I understood it well enough to decide to access my NAS directly without using jellyfin as a library source.
But it got me to thinking...so I'm interested in some discussion or comments on the advantages and disadvantages of directly accessing the same NAS folder and scanning vs setting the library up to use jellyfin (or any media server for anyone else curious).
Are there risks with album art when two separate applications are monitoring the same folder structure?
Are there advantages to having the moode application access the media server instead of directly accessing the source files?
Does the library update better when using a media server or does it still need to rescan the entire library in either case?
These are just some of the questions that have come to mind and I'm interested to hear other's thoughts on the matter, or examples of how you have your local file libraries set up and what works good for you.
Cheers everyone and thanks for your replies!
I have the library directly accessing my NAS media/music folder which is split into sub folders for artists, compilations, soundtracks, etc.
I was also reading that there is uPnP/DLNA functionality that could access my jellyfin server (set up on the same NAS, accessing the media folder). I opted against using this feature as I came across some discussion about album art not showing up unless it was embedded, and about duplicate entries in the tree structure. Admittedly some of what I was reading was a bit foreign to me, but I believe I understood it well enough to decide to access my NAS directly without using jellyfin as a library source.
But it got me to thinking...so I'm interested in some discussion or comments on the advantages and disadvantages of directly accessing the same NAS folder and scanning vs setting the library up to use jellyfin (or any media server for anyone else curious).
Are there risks with album art when two separate applications are monitoring the same folder structure?
Are there advantages to having the moode application access the media server instead of directly accessing the source files?
Does the library update better when using a media server or does it still need to rescan the entire library in either case?
These are just some of the questions that have come to mind and I'm interested to hear other's thoughts on the matter, or examples of how you have your local file libraries set up and what works good for you.
Cheers everyone and thanks for your replies!
