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Trending Lyricist I
Aug 28, 2023 11:58 PM UTC
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Changing Music Library from NAS to Mac

I recently decided to switch to a 2x2 TB SSD RAID drive running in an enclosure off of my Mac mini, replacing an old but not-yet dead NAS.  The NAS did backups and held my music files.  I found such cheap (Intel) SSDs that the whole thing came it at about $200, which is cheaper than a comparable NAS with mechanical drives.  It seemed pretty simple to swap, with OSX Extended (Case sensitive, journaled) format partitions for public files (music), Time Machine, and Misc on each of the two RAID drives.  Time Machine loves it, and I can read and write to the other partitions as normal.  

Sonos, not so much.  When I specify the path to my music, e.g., /Volumes/Pubic RAID/Shared Music/iTunes, I get maybe 10 seconds of indexing (lots of music, so it should take a long time even off of a fast SSD) and then no music in either the Mac or iPhone app.  

If I do the same process off of my base HD, which is a tiny SSD that is APFS formatted, it works (for the 10 or 20 tracks I have there).

I’d deeply appreciate any help the group could offer.

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Grand Maestro
Aug 29, 2023 12:53 AM UTC

Start an index and let it finish. Create a Diagnostic and contact Sonos with the ID number as they can see internal details we users can’t.

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ERJAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Aug 29, 2023 12:01 AM UTC

Forgot to mention.  Ventura 13.4.1, S2 for Sonos.

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ERJAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
Aug 29, 2023 12:06 AM UTC

Also, the Sonos Library Server appears to be doing almost nothing on the activity monitor, after loading.

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Stanley_4
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Grand Maestro
Aug 29, 2023 12:53 AM UTC

Start an index and let it finish. Create a Diagnostic and contact Sonos with the ID number as they can see internal details we users can’t.

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Trending Lyricist I
Sep 1, 2023 1:46 PM UTC

Sonia did a remote control job. Looked like access to the drive share was changed to Public. It worked. 

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