How to manage a 100gb+ MP3 library and be... functional at all.

[kurek]

For the best experience you might want to look at accessing Moode's web ui from a mobile device like a tablet or phone which should be quicker than a Pi you also you don't have to get out of your seat to control moode then. Otherwise try to avoid going to the now playing sceen when a massive playlist is loaded.

I forgot to mention, some of the previous attempts at this have been with (either of) the Raspberry Pi's in a different, non-display enclosure and strictly through the web UI. But I think I got the answer anyway that it's not necessarily about the library size but about the playlist size which in my desired case is "all of it" .

When you say "ask it to play a bigger library" do you mean you are asking moOde to make a playlist of ALL your music and play it? If so, no it won't work, the playlist would consume all the memory on list that size. Also if so, why? It would take years to play through all that music.

Oh yeah I was (and wish to continue) doing everything in a single playlist and hit random all. It's work from home background music and the less repetitive it can be the better. I hadn't considered the playlist itself would be a problem since winamp on windows has handled playlists this size on 300mhz pentium chips so I considered it not really a big deal. Don't know what goes on under the hood differently. So that means my better option for a whole-library playlist is to dust off an old laptop, download winamp and use that.

Thanks for the confirmation about where I'm running into a bottleneck, saves me from spending more time troubleshooting

Cheers