Reindex a Single Share or Play Non Indexed Music

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  • Official comment
    Bjørn Ulvik
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    Hi raf,
    I'm not sure what you mean about "remotely located NAS", but reindexing no matter where it is located shouldn't take more than 10-20 minutes with a collection of your size.
    Rebuilding index, with my collection of 250' takes about 4 hours.
    Reindexing or Rebulding one share or playing from unindexed folders are not possible.

  • raf

    Thanks for the reply Bjørn, the NAS is located about 800kms away, I have a share on my local PC of the Music folder on the NAS over the internet and share this local folder with BluOS, so I don't know if the internet is slowing down the indexing but I can reindex in MediaMonkey much quicker than BluOS.

    Even if it was quicker it seems ridiculous that I have to wait even 20 minutes to be able to play new songs, at least in MediaMonkey I can play directly from the folder.

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  • Seppi Evans
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    Why why not pop the new tracks onto a USB memory stick and connect it to USB port on the Powernode, almost instant access and then run a reindex as and when.

    Alternatively have a local copy on a NAS and then sync that to your remote location as needed. To be honest I am surprised you don’t have buffering issues or the inability to play hires (better than CD) tracks.

    Also if the POWERNODE is wireless, try temporarily running an Ethernet cable as wired is much faster when running a reindex.

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  • raf

    Hi Seppi,

    No issues with playing from the remote NAS, even hi-res 24/96 files are fine, I will eventually have a full local copy of the NAS files and sync the 2 but haven't got around to that as yet, Powernode is connected via ethernet.

    It would just be so much simpler just to be able to play directly from the folder it really makes no sense that that isn't possible, while using a seperate USB device works it really shouldn't be necessary.

    As the PC isn't located near the Powernode I think the best solution will be to continue to use the much better library features in MediaMonkey and get a wireless DAC such as the NAD Wireless DAC 2 or Audioengine D2 and connect that to the Powernode and not use BlueOS which is a shame but BlueOS seems to lack some fairly basic playback & library features.

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  • raf

    Just giving Roon a try, while you can't play directly from folders either at least you can reindex individual shares but it monitors the shares in real time and adds new music automatically and allows you play music as it adds it rather than having to wait until the indexing has finished like with BluOS.

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  • Seppi Evans
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    I almost recommended trying Roon to you but it does not always gel very well because of the overhead of needing a server and the licensing cost. Works very well with both local music and Tidal / Qobuz, personally don’t use Roon but have tried it several times and perhaps it’s purchase for the future.

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