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# Setting up a network media drive with an NFS-enabled NAS and a Raspberry Pi
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I have a large digitised collection of music, and have been experimenting with ways to set up a communal music player in my living room without defaulting to Spotify, or any other such streaming platform.
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Thus far I have used an old laptop with as much music as it will fit loaded onto it, running [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/) and plugged into some speakers.
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This is an OK solution, but has a few drawbacks: I'm limited to the disk of the laptop, the laptop uses more power than it needs to, and I kind of want that laptop back as a laptop!
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I also have a desktop machine from which I often work from home, and would like my music collection available there too.
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Ideally, these should be stored in the same place, to save having to manage duplicate files and manually synchronising locations, since I am likely to add to my collection from a variety of locations.
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I have spent enough time `rsync`ing albums between machines, life is too short even on a gigabit local network.
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I've recently had the good fortune to acquire a Synology NAS, so I'm going to use that to host my music collection.
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Nothing I'm doing should be specific to Synology's hardware or software, as we'll be using [NFS](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NFS) to mount remote drives - but exposing an NFS shared folder to the network is therefore out of scope for this post.
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I also had the luck to grab a Raspberry Pi from a pop-up store a few weeks ago, and felt that would make a perfect, low-power, unintrusive box to attach to the speakers.
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Ostensibly, the Pi is overkill for just playing music, but it's better than a whole laptop and I'm sure I'll find other jobs for it to do as time goes on.
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## Set up a shared folder
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The first step is to centralise my music storage.
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To do this, I created a shared folder from my NAS' web interface, and exposed it to the network.
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In my case, I had to specifically add permission for other devices to access the folder via NFS - such as the Pi, my desktop and my laptop.
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It was therefore prudent to assign each of these machines a static IP on my network, so that the NAS can continue to recognise them.
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I also had to set it to map all users to admin, but this is almost certainly a misconfiguration on my part - don't follow me for security advice, I am just tinkering!
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## Setting up the Pi
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