I would like to use Volumio as Web Radio and Player for my Music library stored on a DNS-325 NAS. The setup was very easy, but after a short time I recognized that my NAS HDDs no longer spindown as I am used to, but Volumio was stopped for some time. As soon as I turned off the Raspi, the problem was gone and the HDDs went to sleep. I tried the samba mount as well as NFS, both ended up in the same behavior. Why does the Raspi keep the NAS awake, are there periodic requests even though the player is not running? Is there a way to fix that problem? Thanks in advance and for the great work on volumio.
Thank you for your quick reply. Point one fixed the issue, since I used MPDroid, I didn’t know there is a difference between Stop and Pause because there is only a pause button. As soon as I used the Stop button from the Web UI, the HDDs went back to sleep. point two was already active by default.
Is there an advantage of NFS over SMB mount, or is it more or less the same?
NFS has a lower CPU footprint but requires some configuration about user ids (I think).
I use SMB because I don’t want to enable NFS on my server only for Volumio.
Stop vs Pause: stop closes the “connection” to the file so that the operating system known it is not used anymore. Like on CD players, with stop the CD stops spinning and when you press Pause the CD still spins, to be ready to immediately resume playback.
In the preferences of MPDroid you find an option to enable Stop button
I have similar problem - Volumio prevents my NAS’s HDD from entering standby. I’m using latest version, web interface - but there are no “stop” button there…