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 =====How To Use a USB Drive For The VortexBox Media Library===== =====How To Use a USB Drive For The VortexBox Media Library=====
  
-Here are instructions for using a USB drive for your VortexBox media library:+Here are instructions for using a USB drive for your VortexBox media library. These instructions should work on both VortexBox 2.3 (Fedora 20) and VortexBox 2.4 (Fedora 23).
  
 1. Prepare your USB drive. VortexBox media are in /storage: 1. Prepare your USB drive. VortexBox media are in /storage:
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 </​code>​ </​code>​
  
-To use an external USB drive for your VortexBox media, you'll have to create top-level folders music, pictures, and movies on the USB drive. You should also create a music/flac folder on your USB drive, and place your music files there (even if they are not FLAC files). Also create a music/​playlist folder for LMS playlists. Create a music/mp3 folder for VortexBox to use for mirroring FLAC files to mp3. Do not place any music files in music/mp3; place them in music/flac. Move your media files on the USB drive to the appropriate folders. This will allow you to mount the USB drive at /storage and have all your media show up in the proper place.+To use an external USB drive for your VortexBox media, you'll have to create top-level folders ​**music****pictures**, and **movies** on the USB drive. You should also create a **music/flac** folder on your USB drive, and place your music files there (even if they are not FLAC files). Also create a **music/​playlist** folder for LMS playlists. Create a **music/mp3** folder for VortexBox to use for mirroring FLAC files to mp3. Do not place any music files in music/mp3; place them in music/flac. Move your media files on the USB drive to the appropriate folders. This will allow you to mount the USB drive at /storage and have all your media show up in the proper place.
  
 2. Remove all other USB drives (e.g. a backup drive) from your VB. Plug the desired USB drive into your VB. 2. Remove all other USB drives (e.g. a backup drive) from your VB. Plug the desired USB drive into your VB.
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 <​code>​UUID="​725A66165AF23401"​ /storage ntfs defaults 0 0</​code>​ <​code>​UUID="​725A66165AF23401"​ /storage ntfs defaults 0 0</​code>​
  
-Use the UUID returned by the blkid command on your system.+Use the UUID returned by the **blkid** command on your system.
  
 14. After you have mounted the USB drive at /storage, change ownership of /​storage/​music/​playlist so it can be written by Logitech Media Server: 14. After you have mounted the USB drive at /storage, change ownership of /​storage/​music/​playlist so it can be written by Logitech Media Server:
 <​code>​chown squeezeboxserver:​squeezeboxserver /​storage/​music/​playlist</​code>​ <​code>​chown squeezeboxserver:​squeezeboxserver /​storage/​music/​playlist</​code>​
  
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