12-23-2023, 01:07 PM
(12-20-2023, 01:37 AM)japumpy Wrote: @TheOldPresbyope My apologies for my late reply to this thread. Health issues!
I followed your sage instructions using Rpi Imager and referred to your comprehensive thread, for which I thank you. There are lots to learn! The result was, I'm afraid, the same. My main reason for using the SSD as a moOde drive is to improve performance. In the past, I have had major lag issues with the system. It seems this was down to uSD not being suitable for random access such as an SSD. I've similar issues with a USB stick (same reason).
I have actually used other players; however, I do prefer moOde overall. I think the community is also fun to deal with.
I'm sad to say I'm a little bit stuck.
It's a myth that high quality uSD cards are unreliable or that pulling the plug on a Pi corrupts these cards.
I've been using high quality uSD cards as boot media for 10 years and only experienced maybe 3 or 4 bad cards. My cards get heavy write activity during development reloads and re-imaging and if I'm feeling a bit lazy I just cut power and still no issues whatsoever :-) Typical boot time for fresh image these cards on any of the quad-core Pi's is under 60 secs.
My advice is to use Surveillance-grade uSD cards like the WD Purple QD101 cards from Western Digital.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088CD...UTF8&psc=1
Another tip is to always keep the boot media separate from the media used to store music files otherwise if the boot media also has your music files on it a re-flash will wipe those files and you will need to reload them.
There are two partitions on a moOde image: a small; Fat32 boot partition which can be seen by Win/Mac/Linux, and an EXT4 root partition that gets expanded at first boot to max size of boot media and which can only be seen by Linux. The root partition contains the RaspiOS/Linux files and directories for example /home, /etc, /var, /lib, /mnt and so on. moOde application files are in these directories.
I think if you use high qual uSD card and prep it using the instructions in the Setup Guide you will be all set. https://github.com/moode-player/moode/bl.../setup.txt
