Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best HDD format for PiCore player and MacOS?
We just did this for a PiCore LMS build for someone, populating a library USB thumb drive off a Mac. Of the formats we trialed, exFAT worked easiest and best. sgmlaw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13995 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116081 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best HDD format for PiCore player and MacOS?
PugRallye wrote: > Any help or experience would be welcome - thank you in advance... I wrote it already anywhere else on the forum. I am using my Mac with the Music Program to create my music media library (there are a few other programs for tagging and getting covers that I am using). This library is placed on an external SSD with HFS+ format (MacOS extended). I have another SSD also with HFS+ format which is an exact 1:1 copy of this drive (I am doing it with Carbon copy cloner which is really fast in creating such copies), This drive is normally attached to my Pi 4 with piCorePlayer and LMS. It is mounted there as a read-only drive as I only need to read from it. The LMS database is placed on a USB stick inside the Pi 4. When I changed something in the library on my Mac I press the switch-off button on my Argon One case and wait until it is switched off. Then I disconnect the drive from the Pi and attach it to my Mac where CCC automatically starts and copy all new files to the drive. Then I attach it back to the Pi and start the "new files scan" in LMS. Ready. pi4 4gb picoreplayer with lms and squeezelite for usb inside an argon one case pi3b+ (7\" display, hifiberry dac+ pro) picoreplayer with squeezlite/jivelite for hifiberry and bluetooth headphone inside a smartipi touch case two airport express ikea symfonisk carsten_h's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69113 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116081 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best HDD format for PiCore player and MacOS?
No other file systems are good for "cross" using on Windows-Mac-Linux, extfat is best choice without external utility. Cluster size on a usb drive (for sure if you want to use in differents pc) is not a crucial factor, more important is controller usb performace and in Raspberry is not so super. So use extfat and be happy. ;) febomax's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=72641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116081 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
[SlimDevices: Unix] Best HDD format for PiCore player and MacOS?
Hi, I recently switched from using Windows to MacOS and I've always run the HDD attached to the Pi, and an external backup HDD as exFAT Since moving to MacOS, I've learned the hard way that MacOS doesn't play nice with exFAT where the disc was formatted on Windows (which uses a default allocation size of 4096) - from what I can see, MacOS only supports allocation sizes up to 1024 I use GoodSync on MacOS to backup between the drive normally connected to the Pi and my backup drive btw So I guess I have two questions: 1. would changing to allocation size of 1024 have much impact on performance? (either in use on the Pi, playback, re-indexing etc, or when backing up) 2. is there a better format than exFAT that will work on both the Pi and MacOS (and ideally Windows too, just in case, but not a deal breaker) 3. Other options? (e.g. running Windows on my MacBook Air M1?) For reference, I have c6TB of music files (almost entirely FLAC) Any help or experience would be welcome - thank you in advance... PugRallye's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17668 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116081 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
