Effect of NAS cpu performance on MinimServer

[DavidL]

Thanks for the quick response Simon

"I don't understand this. You can set alphaGrouping so that it only groups the top-level list of 5000 albums and no other lists. How would this make a difference to compiling a playlist?"

Currently to compile a playlist in 'Classical-Modern' I browse all this genre and enqueue the albums (works) I want. As I understand it to do so with alphaGrouping I would need to browse each relevant alphaGroup to choose the work for the playlist. OK getting the alphaGroups to load would be very much faster but there would be additional time required to switch between alphaGroups. In addition (which I did not mention) I often browse my current (large, full-alphabet) genres and rediscover music I'd not played for a long time or even forgotten I had - an approach that is best not constrained alphabetically.

"To answer your main question, a faster NAS makes everything running on it go faster, including MinimServer."

OK, thanks - I guessed that was probably the case. I'll choose my next NAS on that basis, when it becomes necessary.