Network Drives versus DLNA as source

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Hi.

I setup Volumio-OS 3.0 on a headless Rpi4B(32GB-SDcard) and subscribed to Premium plan.

I am a newbie to the Volumio UI from a PC running Google-chrome (http://volumio-vick.local/playback).

All seems to be running great for the most part. I am trying to understand the Music Browse button on the UI playback page I have a NAS running as a DLNA media server. When I click on the Media Server, I can browse by folder, we my libs and music, but cannot play the tracks (play button does not turn into pause button).

However in the Volumio-UI under Sources “My Music”, nothing happens when I use “Update” or “Rescan” buttons (i.e. Artists=Albums=Tracks=0).

Should I not expect it to populate the DLNA music such that I can browse by Artists, Albums, Tracks ? My guess is this is not how it works.

I then proceeded in the Volumio-UI to using the Sources “Network Drives” adding the NAS music folder directly but it does not mount, and asks for the NAS password (which uses two-factor communication).

I unhide the advanced option to provide a username/password (which I worry wrt security). And it still does not mount.

Your help is appreciated.
Mike

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I just want to add that the Roku can play from my NAS without issues. Also can play from my phone. All is on the home LAN.

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Correction. I can play tracks from the UI-Media server depending on how I browse within (i.e. By Folder, By Album, By Artist…). So I guess it is working.

Sorry for the confusion. I have a bit of configuring on my NAS wrt what is being served by the Media server.

Thanks,
Mike

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Volumio uses the information provided by the DLNA server and does not add the tracks to the internal database. Some DLNA servers like Minimserver do provide views by album, artist, etc in addition to a folder view.

The best experience is to mount the NAS drives/folders and let Volumio scan the tracks and index everything with the application. You can either use cifs/smb or nfs for that but you will need to work out security from the NAS side.

If you are worried about security, you can always set up a specific Volumio user with read-only access to your music folders and no access to anything else.