Re: Help to place media library on an external network drive attached to router

2024-08-07 Thread 'Andrew' via MacVisionaries
I have an airport expresss on my network to which my sonos system is attached. Could I attach an external usb drive to it and run my media library from that? Andrrew > On 5 Aug 2024, at 21:41, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > No, using a router is not sufficient unless it happens to be one of the

Re: Help to place media library on an external network drive attached to router

2024-08-05 Thread Bradford Snyder
I’m not sure this is true. I have both a Linksys Velop router, that has a USB-A port that will support an external USB drive and an AT&T Internet Gateway that also has a USB-A port that will support an external drive. - Brad - On Aug 5, 2024, at 15:41, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: No, using a r

Re: Help to place media library on an external network drive attached to router

2024-08-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
No, using a router is not sufficient unless it happens to be one of the airport from Apple. T that’s supported external drives. These are hard to find these days. Generally you need a network attached storage or NAS to do this. Sonoligy is one of the big names and doing this, but they are fairly

Help to place media library on an external network drive attached to router

2024-08-05 Thread 'Andrew' via MacVisionaries
Dear List, I need some serious help here, and I appreciate it requires your input which may take some time. I’ve tried to do research on this but I may not be knowledgeable enough to understand how to accomplish this. I’d like to place my entire media library on an external drive and attach it