Library Organization & Network Drive Configuration

Using a Raspberry Pi 5 with a 2tb USB SSD for the music library. Removing the drive and manually adding cover art and more music [seemed] to crash the system requiring a new Volumio OS install.

There are presently about 22,000 files all in .OGG format. I noticed that some albums had likely automatically generated cover art. These is all player piano music with only a hundred or so synced to “ordinary” CDs. I was adding cover art (highest quality available) for albums made by player piano music manufacturers.

Is there any problem with nested folders, i.e. folders that contain only other folders with the actual songs at the end of a given full folder path? No folders contain both files (of any sort) and folders; only other folders or .OGG files.

Secondly, I would like to turn the SSD attached to the Volumio into a network drive for administrator only (me) access. I’ve read instructions on how to do this with Raspbery Pi OS, but have no idea if similar commands with work with Volumio.

To bypass a search on MusicBrainz you need to add artists.jpg and cover.jpg to your music folders, like:

  • Artist1
    • artists.jpg
    • Album1
      • cover.jpg
    • Album2
      • cover.jpg
  • Artist2
    • artists.jpg
    • Album1
      • cover.jpg
    • Album2
      • cover.jpg
  • Artist3

To ensure smooth performance across all supported devices, from Pi Zero to Raspberry Pi 5, please keep image sizes reasonable, ideally around 750×750 pixels. Volumio is a bit-perfect audio player, not a graphic design platform, and large images can strain less powerful systems.

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Thank you Wheaten.

Definitely quite a bit of coding involved but I can automate that for the library and new additions.