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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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- | 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>blkid /dev/sdb1</code> | <code>blkid /dev/sdb1</code> | ||
- | Use the correct device name in the above command if it's not /dev/sdb1. | + | **Use the correct device name in the above command if it's not /dev/sdb1.** |
On my VortexBox, this returns | On my VortexBox, this returns | ||
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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> | ||