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HELP!

I have several external drives with music.
One drive was unplugged accidentally and obviously music wan't showing up.

I plugged drive back in and it still fails to display those folders.

I can access the folders via ever other way (Foobar, Sonos, etc.)
The drive letter hasn't changed.

I've tried deleted and re-adding this drive.
I've scanned music folders.
I've cleaned the database.

I've re-booted my computer several times.
I've stopped and restarted Subsonic server.

What else can I do and what is happening?


Windows 7

Fixed by changing Drive Letter.

This just kills me though as all my playcounts are gone and shared media and playlists are messed up.

I would still be interested in hearing any ideas of what caused this and how I could have rectified differently if it happens again in the future.

thanks,
Parker

This is an interesting topic that pops up now and again.

Subsonic doesn't seem to always play well with NAS and/or external drives. Additionally, if the drives isn't formatted as an NTFS drive there can be problems.

I always make any external storage that I'm going to access with Subsonic a network share, such as: "\\Music"

For some reason this seems to work the best and avoid problems. The one thing you have to remember is to give the Subsonic service the proper logon account so that it has permission to read the share.

This shouldn't apply to an external drive that shows up as a local drive on the host PC, but this isn't the first time I've seen this reported.

I'm not a big fan of a NAS or external drive due to their poor thermal properties that generally cause early failure. With cheap big drives available I much prefer to just add another internal drive. It's usually a cheaper and more reliable option.

Much the same analogy as in the old days when everyone was buying tape back up drives that were slow, expensive and less reliable than just adding a second hard drive. never could figure out that logic either. With NAS and external drives carrying a premium, I just can't make sense out of buying them when gigabit lan makes any drive accessible on the internal network. I do have one 2.5" external that i use as the server back up drive for my WHS 2011 C: drive and it also comes in handy on ocassion if I want to mail a large chunk of data to someone, but that hasn't happened in ages.

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How can you go wrong with this?

GJ51 wrote:This is an interesting topic that pops up now and again.

Subsonic doesn't seem to always play well with NAS and/or external drives. Additionally, if the drives isn't formatted as an NTFS drive there can be problems.

The one thing you have to remember is to give the Subsonic service the proper logon account so that it has permission to read the share.

Set the credentials on the subsonic service.

GJ51 wrote:This shouldn't apply to an external drive that shows up as a local drive on the host PC, but this isn't the first time I've seen this reported.

But it does in beta 4.7v3, or at least I should say your suggestion helped me find out why the music on my external drive wasn't playing. So, thank you very much!!

GJ51 wrote:I'm not a big fan of a NAS or external drive due to their poor thermal properties that generally cause early failure. With cheap big drives available I much prefer to just add another internal drive. It's usually a cheaper and more reliable option.

Much the same analogy as in the old days when everyone was buying tape back up drives that were slow, expensive and less reliable than just adding a second hard drive. never could figure out that logic either. With NAS and external drives carrying a premium, I just can't make sense out of buying them when gigabit lan makes any drive accessible on the internal network. I do have one 2.5" external that i use as the server back up drive for my WHS 2011 C: drive and it also comes in handy on ocassion if I want to mail a large chunk of data to someone, but that hasn't happened in ages.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148844

How can you go wrong with this?

There are some new storage "server" devices on the market now that are quite appealing. One is the Western Digital Sentinel. Kind of expensive, but will do what you're talking about, is easy to set up and easily expandable.
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Thanks for your kind words.

I think today the best cheapest option for anyone who wants a great platform to host Subsonic, is to take any old PC and buy WHS 2011 before it is pulled from the market.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... n=whs+2011

$50 for a server OS based on Server 08 R2. Get an Antec 300 case with room for 8 3.5" drives and what more could you ask for? This gives you a solid OS with the ability to do back ups of all your networked PC's if you have them. You don't need tons of horsepower to get this off the ground, just pull the parts out of any old PC and stuff them in the Antec case, it's cool. quiet, and easy to work on. With 3TB drives as low as $139 you can pack more into a setup like this for far less than other available options.

If you don't have an old PC to use as the foundation, just go to Tiger Direct and look for a cheap refurb to get started.

This was how I started building my server farm that has now grown to 5 servers with about 35 TB of storage. Sounds like a whole lot, but each setup grew a little at a time and was surprisingly affordable. I got a bit lucky when hard drives were very cheap and I was buying Samsung F4 2 TB drives for $69. While that was going on, I would buy a few every payday until I had enough of them to build a RAID 50 array for my primary storage server.

Just some ideas to tink about ...