Copy music to microsd

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Hello. I have a 1tb microsd with Volumio. I wanted to copy 700GB of music to it, but I’ve only seen how to do it over the local Net. Can I copy the files directly by usb? On the net it is very slow

Thanks!

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It’s not a really smart way to do it.
If volumio breaks and you have to start over you will lose it all.
Better way is use a external drive hooked on usb
But disconnect it if you run a update to prevent a wipe of the drive.

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That is not a problem. I have two backup copies of my files.

Thanks for reply

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You can only do it over a network as the mount is done by the image which is not accessible outside Volumio.

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Hi - you could copy your files to a USB drive, then plug the drive into the PI, then use the address “\volumio” in “This PC” - I am assuming you are using a Windows PC ( the \ are important). Now you should be able to copy the files from the USB folder to the Internal Storage folder on the microSD card.
Hope this helps
Michael

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Correction there should be double slashes: \Volumio

Sorry for the mistake

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Try again! The system is not accepting double slashes in my replies for some reason - but you need to use them!

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I use the following for this, it’s true that MacMini is iron: I plug USB into the Mini, I copy from a PC with totalkommander simply over the network. But the data does not come over the network, but from USB to internal storage. Quick and easy!