Which NAS works well with WiiM Pro?
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Yes, it would be important for me to see the file names of the tracks. Can I somehow not duplicate the file name into the title tag?
How much does the paid version cost?
How does tag view look?
The nas drive will only have my own hobby music creations, the rest will come from Spotify's premium streaming service.
Do your tracks contain the Title tag because if they don't the filename will be used instead.
Do your tracks contain DiscNumber and TrackNumber?
If you opt for a Synology NAS it comes with its own media server, Audio Station
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which might suit your needs
Audio Station Technical Specifications | Synology Inc.
With Audio Station and its mobile app DS audio, you can enjoy high-quality playback, listen to radios, manage your music collection, create personal playlist, and share with friends anywhere.
www.synology.com
which might suit your needs
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I don't know and I don't think so. They are just given appropriate file names e.g. Afro Eastern Fusion 1 etc. No disc number or track number.
This looks nice but not applicable to me. I just create one off individuals as a hobby. No albums and tracks under albums.
I don't want to use third party apps like DS Audio. I want to control access to music files on the NAS via WHA. In fact, I wish Spotify ran within WHA, I've noticed it runs the Spotify App separately when Spotify is chosen. It'n not nice to have to toggle between two apps to play music. It should be all integrated.If you opt for a Synology NAS it comes with its own media server, Audio Station
Audio Station Technical Specifications | Synology Inc.
With Audio Station and its mobile app DS audio, you can enjoy high-quality playback, listen to radios, manage your music collection, create personal playlist, and share with friends anywhere.
which might suit your needs
I'm sure there is a simple and sensible solution.
you don't have to. WHA will recognise it as a DLNA server or an SMB share
You can browse by folder. Here's one where I deleted all the tag info as an example
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I took 5 albums and removed all the tags. Each folder did have a folder.jpg so if yours don't then you won't see any artwork.
Initial display. Choose [folder view]
Lists the folders in the root of your content directory (the directory you tell MinimServer to scan). MinimServer employs a natural sort by default so you won't see 1,10, 11, 12, .. ,2 e.t.c. (unlike most other servers).
Once you've descended into a folder with tracks:
Finally the Now Playing screen.
I was quite surprised that indexing a library without tags didn't generate error messages in the log!
I don't think you need to worry too much about a server at this point; your needs are basic so you have options.
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Will I be able to create playlists with all the above options?
Audio station/media server might be better as it is part of Synology.
Really good to learn about Minimserver.
In regards to Plex, would I need the Plex client or app on my Nvidia Shield to play the video files?
As a comparison, if I placed all my music tracks on a USB3 SSD drive and plugged it directly into the Wiim Ultra, would that enable the creation of playlists in the WHA?
In the case of a NAS, when I make a playlist in WHA, I would presume it stores the path of each music track and just pulls it off of the NAS drive during playback. Sorry, I don't mean to go back to square-one, just trying to make sense of it.
hgo58
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You can control the playback from the WiiM Home App as soon as it is playing. You will have to select the track/album/playlist from the Spotify app, as Spotify don't have a third party API to let it be included in the WHA.
You can create playlists from any source except a samba share.
That's right, but not all servers are suited to playlist creation as the URLs change over time e.g. MiniDLNA (which the Amp/Ultra uses).
MinimServer uses the underlying file path in its URLs so you're fine as long as you don't move the source files (which you'd expect to cause problems).
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Thank you for the clarification.
