i understand your doubts and concerns, i had it too. I used "volumio" before (the same hardware, volumio acts as server and player). All in all it went well with a maximum of ~20.000 titles. After enhancing the database, the problems began. So i tried out to use plugins for "miniDNLA" and "LMS" instead of the volumio buildin server. This increased the performance dramatically. But i was completely unsatisfied with the administration-tools available in volumio. Volumio is a nice gadget for quick&dirty installation for many users with small libraries. In a forum i heard about picoreplayer and that it is perfect for big libraries unsing Pi as serbver and player. i began this advenbture togetherwith my brother, who has nearly the same library and i predicted that we will need a nas at the end. i started with ~100.000 title->perfect, i doubled the titles->perfect...so i tried out using my whole library which contains nearly 400.000 titles. First i used the HD as the cache-location. It went well. Than i tried out a partition on the the SD-Card (mine is 32GB). I had the feeling that this enhanced the performance again. i have two samba shares, one for the sd-partition for backups of the database (slimserver-directory has ~ 6GB) and one for my 4TB-HD hanging on the Pi. I have a complete backup on a seperate HD not in use. I also use LMS on my notebook with the exactly same 400.00 title library. On the LMS i did not use one main directory for my library, but 12 different directories. So i can push individual manually rescan of these directories, which seens to be much faster. So yes, i do the backup-job and synchronisation between notebook- ans Pi-library manually, but this is no problem using "Total Commander" which i use since 20 years. i understand that a NAS brings a lot of benefits (e.g. raid....) and i often thougt about it, but i never saw the need of using one. Yo can believe me, if i tell you, that navigating, seaching etc. is nearly in realtime, sometimes some seconds but mostly only a fraction of a second. It does not matter which tool i use for operating. In most cases i use just the web-Ui (material skin) as a shortcuton my tablet, but i also have Squeezer, Orange Squeeze and BubbleUPNP working all well. As a players i use picoreplayer on my Pi (using an Allo Boss), Squeezelite-X for the PC and sometimes Chromecast if i want a big screen. It all is working absolut perfectly as i never have expected. The only thing i missed, was tehe artwork during navigation in music folders (there are a lot of media-Databases where this is common) and that was the reason i started this thread.
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