I have a very large audio collection - perhaps 30,000 songs, (300gb or so) mostly complete albums. Pretty much all are in MP3 audio format; 192kbps +. Some of them have the correct meta data associated with them but it is pretty inconsistent as to how it is populated and some have cover art and some do not. I have all of them stored on a Synology DS415 Play. The issue I have is that I have no good way of playing my music. When I use my Roku box to look at music on the Synology DS415 it takes 10 minutes just to display all the albums so is totally useless.
I have the following equipment that could be used to store and play music, maintain a music database and display cover art:
- Synology DS415 Play
- Roku 3
- Android TV box with XBMC installed
- Intel NUC with Windows 7 but only 200GB of storage and only about 25gb free remaining. Itunes is installed on this PC.
- iPad mini and an iPhone 6
- Denon AVR 2113 with 5.1 surround through pretty good speakers
- Sharp TV
- all controlled over IP using the RoomieRemote app on the iPad mini
Ideally a subsection of the music would take up about 20gb and exist on my iphone 6 and come with me but when i am at home I would have easy access to the whole collection and play it through the Denon AVR. My playing would likely be either playing a playlist I have previously created or browsing to an album and playing the whole album. I would also like to be able to browse albums and songs and add them to the queue of what is currently playing.
Suggestions on how to make this all work and what software to use to maintain a music database and add cover art and missing metadata would be great please.
I have the following equipment that could be used to store and play music, maintain a music database and display cover art:
- Synology DS415 Play
- Roku 3
- Android TV box with XBMC installed
- Intel NUC with Windows 7 but only 200GB of storage and only about 25gb free remaining. Itunes is installed on this PC.
- iPad mini and an iPhone 6
- Denon AVR 2113 with 5.1 surround through pretty good speakers
- Sharp TV
- all controlled over IP using the RoomieRemote app on the iPad mini
Ideally a subsection of the music would take up about 20gb and exist on my iphone 6 and come with me but when i am at home I would have easy access to the whole collection and play it through the Denon AVR. My playing would likely be either playing a playlist I have previously created or browsing to an album and playing the whole album. I would also like to be able to browse albums and songs and add them to the queue of what is currently playing.
Suggestions on how to make this all work and what software to use to maintain a music database and add cover art and missing metadata would be great please.