Problem adding WD My Cloud NAS on the network

[Paulbj]

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However, if I go into the music browser immediately after mounting the NAS, I can see NAS item listed but there is no music available underneath it, if I click on it.

It takes time for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) which is at the core of moOde to build its database from the information it finds in the files on the NAS. Did you notice the rotating arrows appear in the Music tab when you mounted the NAS? Tim uses that symbolic device to show MPD is busy. My particular moOde/NAS combo takes about 5 minutes to complete the scan.

The information in the Music tab, including in the Browse view, is generated from the MPD database and not directly from the filesystem, so you can't browse the NAS folder "immediately"         ............................etc.......................

@Paulbj

I've re-built and re-configured a Moode installation on a RPi 2 very recently and the scanning/re-building of a Library database based on a correctly mounted NAS containing 2.7 TB of music files took over 30 minutes. As @TheOldPresbyope mentioned you cannot browse (or play) the NAS folder while the rotating arrows appear in the MUSIC tab... time for tea, coffee or something stronger... wait until the arrows stop rotating, there's no warning message, they just stop.

The problem is that the NAS item in the music browser disappears after a few minutes; never to be seen again. It seems clear that the MPD cannot, for some reason index the contents of the NAS but no one seems to be able to suggest a reason why. I have another 'hardware identical' player running Volumio and that doesn't seem to have any problem at all indexing the contents of the same NAS so I am a bit mystified!

I had a look in mnt/NAS/ and the NAS is there along with all its sub-folders and sub-sub-folders etc so the Moode system clearly has access to it or it wouldn't have been able to create that structure