It looks like it's ALMOST a complete success so thanks so much @TheOldPresbyope, @the_bertrum , @Nutul , @Tim Curtis and @DRONE7 for all your support. Really appreciate it.
In the nest paragraph is the reason for the ALMOST, but first of all here is some information for those who might need to do what I did:
- in the Nas library menu in Moode I had to enter the omv nas ip address / shared folder name;
- the format then was IP address/folder. Nothing else;
- I did not enter the HD (which I had to do when using the fritzbox as a nas);
- in my case the shared folder was in the root of the HD, it was not a subfolder.
I'm not sure it's necessary or even useful, but just to be safe from the router menu I assigned a fixed IP address to the omv nas.
On the omv nas I set up 2 users, where the one corresponding to moode only has read privilege (the other, having read/write privileges might come in handy to add music. if not, I'll delete it)
As they will explain in the tutorials, make sure the omv nas is connected via Ethernet, not wifi
Be patient, the scan will take time and I had to restart it 3 or 4 times before I really got it going. My library is large, though
Yet, here is the last problem I'm having and this time I must assume the issue is with moode itself: If I open the shared folder from the Nas library, moode will show me ALMOST all folders, but not all of them.
The scenario is that in my library, each artist is a subfolder in the main music folder and each artist subfolder may contain a number of subfolders (where I have more than one album by the same artist).
So, in alphabetical order Moode fails to show all the artist subfolders commencing with W, X, Y and Z, plus a number of those commencing with V. Overall, it's 46 artist subfolders missing.
Here's the funny part: if I browse my network from the PC and access the Pi running moode, I get to view the Pi's folders. If I browse the NAS folder... well here are the artist subfoders that Moode's GUI doesn't show. In other words, Moode seems to have scanned the entire music folder and detected all the artist subfolders. Yet, in the GUI it will now show them all
If the issue is not with the GUI, what else could it be?
Should I open a new thread on this?
[EDIT]
I restarted again the update and it's now showing 5 of the 46 missing artist subfolders. Plus, the blinking led on the HD enclosure tells me it's working.
So may be eventually it will show all the artist subfolders, yet the question remains: why is it that the GUI failed to show them all, while I could see them all by browsing the Pi's folders from my PC?
In the nest paragraph is the reason for the ALMOST, but first of all here is some information for those who might need to do what I did:
- in the Nas library menu in Moode I had to enter the omv nas ip address / shared folder name;
- the format then was IP address/folder. Nothing else;
- I did not enter the HD (which I had to do when using the fritzbox as a nas);
- in my case the shared folder was in the root of the HD, it was not a subfolder.
I'm not sure it's necessary or even useful, but just to be safe from the router menu I assigned a fixed IP address to the omv nas.
On the omv nas I set up 2 users, where the one corresponding to moode only has read privilege (the other, having read/write privileges might come in handy to add music. if not, I'll delete it)
As they will explain in the tutorials, make sure the omv nas is connected via Ethernet, not wifi
Be patient, the scan will take time and I had to restart it 3 or 4 times before I really got it going. My library is large, though
Yet, here is the last problem I'm having and this time I must assume the issue is with moode itself: If I open the shared folder from the Nas library, moode will show me ALMOST all folders, but not all of them.
The scenario is that in my library, each artist is a subfolder in the main music folder and each artist subfolder may contain a number of subfolders (where I have more than one album by the same artist).
So, in alphabetical order Moode fails to show all the artist subfolders commencing with W, X, Y and Z, plus a number of those commencing with V. Overall, it's 46 artist subfolders missing.
Here's the funny part: if I browse my network from the PC and access the Pi running moode, I get to view the Pi's folders. If I browse the NAS folder... well here are the artist subfoders that Moode's GUI doesn't show. In other words, Moode seems to have scanned the entire music folder and detected all the artist subfolders. Yet, in the GUI it will now show them all
If the issue is not with the GUI, what else could it be?
Should I open a new thread on this?
[EDIT]
I restarted again the update and it's now showing 5 of the 46 missing artist subfolders. Plus, the blinking led on the HD enclosure tells me it's working.
So may be eventually it will show all the artist subfolders, yet the question remains: why is it that the GUI failed to show them all, while I could see them all by browsing the Pi's folders from my PC?
