Hello everyone,
First I’d like to thank to Volumio team for tremendous work! Well done guys!
I installed Volumio 1.5 on my device and it works much better than 1.4!
ISSUES:
- After linking a drive (sATA) to /var/lib/mpd/music the drive don’t show in the web-ui
- Volumio is booting up with “Consume Mode” ON and empty playlist
- 24bit 96 KHz playback sometimes is heavily distorted
I highly recommend a MPD client called Cantata https://code.google.com/p/cantata/ for Windows/Mac.
I can easily play music stored on mounted/linked sATA drive!
HOW TO ADD SATA DRIVE
First, we create the folder where your hard drive will be mounted:
mkdir /mnt/HARDDRIVE
(or whatever you want to call it)
Now, we grant full permission to that folder
chmod -R 777 /mnt/HARDDRIVE
Now, we create a symlink into MPD music folder to our newly created one, so MPD will index this as well
first we check that the symlink is not yet enabled (link to /mnt/)
cd /var/lib/mpd/music
ls
if you don’t see the folder HARDRIVE we actually create a symlink
ln -s /mnt/HARDDRIVE
Now, let’s see how your Hard drive is called:
fdisk -l
You should see a list, and be able to recognize your 2TB drive. Assuming is called /dev/sda1, we mount it:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/HARDDRIVE
Now, let’s see if it is properly mounted, and if we can see the files in it
cd /mnt/HARDDRIVE
ls
If you can see the files, the last thing is enabling this to be mounted at boot . We add a line to fstab
nano /etc/fstab
Add this at the end (change the name with the name of your drive.
if it is FAT32
/dev/sda1 /mnt/HARDDISK vfat defaults 0 0
if it is NTFS
/dev/sda1 /mnt/HARDDISK ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
HOW TO ADD SAMBA
sudo apt-get install samba
Now let’s add linked SATA drive
nano /etc/samba/smb.conf
and add
[SATA]
comment = SATA
path = /mnt/HARDDISK
read only = no
public = yes
follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes