new setup across vlans/subnets

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(31-03-2021 12:10)simbun Wrote:  Connecting Volumio to an NFS share on my Pi worked first time (once I'd finally realised that I'd set it up initially with access to just my PC!). Volumio also connects readonly to the share so that's fine.

Apart from the fact that you only get Artists, Albums and Genres it's actually better than I thought it'd be.
You have the ability to view by AlbumArtist OR Artist, which for me would be fine (as I use AlbumArtist 95% of the time) but would be a pain otherwise, but it does allow you to search for Artist if choosing to view by
AlbumArtist which is good.
It seems to pick up multiple Genre's too which is good.
It was painfully slow to index though, so it needs to be wired.

Playlists are stored on the device under /data/playlist although I think they're stored in the cloud if you have an account and I guess are shared between instances. It does look like it's in Volumios own format (so it can include songs in online services) though which is going to add some complexity (someone wrote a script in this post to convert them!)

Having said all that I think my expectations were really low as there are so many devices out there that have awful tagging support e.g. Sonos.

I think once you've gone MinimServer though, you won't go back :-)

Sorry, I had to flatten my network. I noticed one device wasn't set to its allocated IP and no matter what I did it wouldn't change. Long story, but somehow its MAC address had changed while pretending to be the original MAC in my attached clients list.
It was in its own isolated LAN with nothing else and I can only speculate on the how or why, but couldn't take the risk of the rest of the network being compromised.
Had to rebuild and change everything and make a few improvements.

Thanks very much for checking. I think I'm stuck with NFS for the volumio. Its not going to be the main attraction in the house - that will get the minimserver treatment.
Apparently software like clementine can export playlists in .PLS format which Volumio can use. I'll check the link and be back when I've made more headway.