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Title: Music Root must be a folder Post by: manisandher on March 21, 2010, 11:46:39 pm Hi Peter,
I'm in the process of transferring my whole music library to a NAS drive with RAID5 (better safe than sorry). But I'm getting the following error message, even though 'Music' definitely is a [EDIT: shared] folder. Any thoughts? Cheers, Mani. Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: LydMekk on March 22, 2010, 07:07:48 am Map a letter, e.g. S: to the diskdrive\folder and then set S: in the field in XX. Many windowsprograms dont accept URLs but need a mapped drive letter...
Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: PeterSt on March 22, 2010, 11:28:41 am Although what LydMekk said will be helping, it still is unexpected to me. So, this just should be working; I will look into it.
:15a: Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: Jack on March 22, 2010, 02:54:54 pm Hi Mani
I did exactly the same (NAS raid 5) a while back & had the same message. So I put the music folder inside another folder which I called audio (call it what you like). No more message! Peter sounds like there's another way though. Jack Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: PeterSt on March 22, 2010, 03:26:09 pm Thanks for mentioning this Jack. But that would still be unintended. :)
Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: manisandher on March 22, 2010, 03:43:53 pm Sounds like it's simply an issue with the folder being a 'shared' folder... In any event, this isn't a big deal, but it'd be nice to have it solved if it's a quick fix. Especially seeing as many people will start going the NAS root, I suspect.
Mani. Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: PeterSt on March 22, 2010, 03:54:53 pm ANYONE who is going the NAS route doesn't know exactly what he is doing, and/or what problems he is going to face at the moment it stops working. Any NAS uses a proprietary file system, and the disks can't be exchanged with others (including those from the OS).
Besides, NAS is completely worthless because it doesn't prevent you of making backups (why ? because it doesn't prevent you from making mistakes yourself, and your mistake (like deleting an album which wasn't meant to be deleted) will be deleted from the other (RAID) disk(s) as well). So, you still need a backup, and at having a backup the NAS doesn't add anything. Unless you want to proceed playing music without exchanging disks wen one fails -> hahaha now *that* is useful ... not). What we need is eSata hot swappable and hot pluggable disks. I can't find those yet, but I guess they will be there in due time. Also notice that the hot-swap / hot-plug feature from a NAS is completely worthless, because that only "works" when one disk -part of the RAID array- fails, and you want to exchange it with a new one. :aggressive: Do I sound aggressive ? yes I do. I do, because nobody understands this, and no manufacturer seems to understand what we really need here : an array of independent disks, outside of the PC, hotswappable, and at the speed of eSata (which is SATAII/III and the fastest connection possible). Sorry, Peter :) Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: AUDIODIDAKT on March 22, 2010, 04:12:25 pm What we need is eSata hot swappable and hot pluggable disks. I can't find those yet, but I guess they will be there in due time. Since last W7 and BIOS update, I got Hotswap working on my mobo even with AHCI. (plug and play) No more reboots......... Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: Jack on March 22, 2010, 04:24:28 pm Hello
I recently got an e-sata caddy (which resides on my main pc) I now play music from this. Mainly because the music loads slightly quicker off this & of course it's readily removable. When I rip music I copy it here & at the same time to the NAS (Belt & braces!) I've updated the NAS firmware (OS) twice since I've had it, which is no more than having to reinstall Windows & it has been no problem. (All my precious data re-appears!) At least with raid 5 you have the option to repair, on any single disk you may not! Especially alleged hot-plugable ones! But WTF Jack Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: manisandher on March 22, 2010, 04:27:21 pm Also notice that the hot-swap / hot-plug feature from a NAS is completely worthless, because that only "works" when one disk -part of the RAID array- fails, and you want to exchange it with a new one. Synology say, "The hard drives are hot-swappable to ensure continual service uptime should the drives need replacement." So, 'need replacement' doesn't mean if I want to upgrade from a 1TB to 2TB drive, say, but rather only when one of the drives fails and needs to be replaced??? Well, I'm about as angry as you are now Peter. (I tend to shoot the messanger though...) I have my NAS drive placed down in my cellar (no noise in living space above) and am connecting it to 3 PCs via a switch and three CAT6 cables of between 5-15m length. Even when hot-swappable/pluggable eSata disks do arrive, I doubt I'll be able to have this configuration... and hence my decision to go for a NAS right now. Mani. Title: Re: Music Root must be a folder Post by: PeterSt on March 22, 2010, 10:11:58 pm LOL Mani.
Quote Even when hot-swappable/pluggable eSata disks do arrive, I doubt I'll be able to have this configuration... Of course you will. Because the one PC the eSata disks are connected to (then) can share the disks to each of the other PCs. On that matter, the PC which has the disks physically connected is ... a NAS. It really is, but without the negatives of a today's NAS. Of course this is not regarding what Roy and Jack just told. But I must tell you that I really liked a kind of challenge in here to solve my own problem. Man, I think I have more disks than physical CDs by now ... Well, sort of. But it really gets crazy. Probably my own fault. Sorry for hijacking a good topic ... :) Peter |