11-17-2024, 02:05 PM
(11-17-2024, 12:49 AM)MJR42 Wrote: 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
