Multiple moOdes, one hard drive - what's the best option?

[MJR42]

Hi folks, I have graduated to n>1 moOde appliances in the house. I have a library of FLAC music files on the main one. I can see at least three different ways of sharing the tunes... SMB, NFS or DLNA. 

Is there any consensus on the best way to give other moOdes access be able to play the tunes?

I'm still thinking about implementing multiroom, but that's for another time when I can justify units in n+1 rooms.

[TheOldPresbyope]

Hi folks, I have graduated to n>1 moOde appliances in the house. I have a library of FLAC music files on the main one. I can see at least three different ways of sharing the tunes... SMB, NFS or DLNA. 

Is there any consensus on the best way to give other moOdes access be able to play the tunes?

I'm still thinking about implementing multiroom, but that's for another time when I can justify units in n+1 rooms.

I chose to run a separate NAS for various reasons but, either way, I go with SMB service. 

Some Unix/Linux purists would argue for NFS but I think SMB the better choice (and I cut my eyeteeth on Unix). It has performed flawlessly for me and is easier to deal with if you want to access/manipulate the files from a non-Linux host. It's easy to conjure up test cases where NFS is faster than SMB but the converse is true too.

Regards,
Kent

[wadada]

I was also not sure and tried it out over some months (SMB/NFS to NAS) Both ran quite smooth. From time to time small issues. But this could be the router, NAS, etc... In general I could not tell which protocol is more stable/unstable. In the end I decided for NFS. Reason is that I do only have Android/Linux devices in the household that do connect to the NAS. And the connection from my main desktop to the NAS is definetly more stable via NFS.

[suzywong]

I also run a NAS and go with SMB service.

And four RPi/MoOde streamers.

[the_bertrum]

As you will be gathering by now, NFS or SMB, take your pick DLNA isn't fit for the purpose you require since the "other" moOde won't be able to mount the DLNA as a native library.

[grumbleweed]

Another vote for SMB, used it to test a pi5 from my pi4 based player.

[MJR42]

Thanks all. I was leaning towards nfs due to my previous experience as a Unix sysadmin, but I decided to try SMB when I realized that I can simply mount the music directory on my Windows maching through Samba, and rip CDs and maintain the MP3 tags directly without having to transfer them through scp.