06-19-2021, 10:05 AM
@timedelay
It occurs to me that my "Copy it to the SDCARD" might have been too cryptic.
To be scanned by MPD, music files must be in the /mnt/SDCARD directory. How you get them there depends on the method of transfer you are using.
1) easy way: when moOde is up and running it exposes all of MPD's music directories via Samba (SMB) shares: NAS, Playlists, Radio, SDCard. You can access these shares from a Windows, MacOS, or Linux host via your LAN. For example, I'm using the Caja file manager on my Linux host. If I look for shares on my Network I see my moOde host. I drill down through it to SDCard (note, you'll get a prompt for the moOde login credentials) and create subdirectories, copy over music files, etc.
2) almost easy way: when an SDCard with moOde installed on it is plugged into another computer it will show up as a drive with file systems in two different partitions: boot and rootfs. The /mnt/SDCARD directory is in the rootfs file system. You can manipulate subdirectories and files directly. I have done this only on Linux hosts so can't comment about using other OSes.
3) more techie way: when moOde is up and running one can copy files directly over the LAN using scp on another host. Because of the permissions system on moOde, I find it easiest to copy them as user pi to user pi's home directory and then ssh to moOde so I can move them to the /mnt/SDCARD directory as superuser. If you know what this means, then you know how. If you don't then stick to 1) or 2).
Regards,
Kent
It occurs to me that my "Copy it to the SDCARD" might have been too cryptic.
To be scanned by MPD, music files must be in the /mnt/SDCARD directory. How you get them there depends on the method of transfer you are using.
1) easy way: when moOde is up and running it exposes all of MPD's music directories via Samba (SMB) shares: NAS, Playlists, Radio, SDCard. You can access these shares from a Windows, MacOS, or Linux host via your LAN. For example, I'm using the Caja file manager on my Linux host. If I look for shares on my Network I see my moOde host. I drill down through it to SDCard (note, you'll get a prompt for the moOde login credentials) and create subdirectories, copy over music files, etc.
2) almost easy way: when an SDCard with moOde installed on it is plugged into another computer it will show up as a drive with file systems in two different partitions: boot and rootfs. The /mnt/SDCARD directory is in the rootfs file system. You can manipulate subdirectories and files directly. I have done this only on Linux hosts so can't comment about using other OSes.
3) more techie way: when moOde is up and running one can copy files directly over the LAN using scp on another host. Because of the permissions system on moOde, I find it easiest to copy them as user pi to user pi's home directory and then ssh to moOde so I can move them to the /mnt/SDCARD directory as superuser. If you know what this means, then you know how. If you don't then stick to 1) or 2).
Regards,
Kent
