I have a few smart playlists set up that are each various genres of music. It’s not perfect, but it works well enough.

Not sure just how you want me to show it, but this how my music is, on the drive(s)

du -hd1 | grep Music

3.0T ./Music

I have about 85k tracks. :)

![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b11a6b02-a232-4c3f-bbcb-28e796cb97d2.png

See where it says “Files” ?

You’re complaining about a player feature, and blaming the server.

I use Symfonium and Navidrome, and I absolutely can browse my Navidrome library by folder if I wanted to.

I use navidrome. And what’s nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.

In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.

You’ll know it when you find it. 🤣

I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren’t quite that big yet.

IPMI + BMC are wonderful things.

When people talk about CPU limitations on the rPi, they aren’t talking about just the actual processing portion of the machine. There are also a lot of other corners cut for basically all SBCs. Including bus width and throughput.

The problem is that when you use a software raid, like ZFS, or it’s precursors, you are using far more than the CPU. You’re also using the data bus between the CPU and the IO controller.

“CPU usage” indicators don’t really tell you how active your data buses are, but how active your CPU is, in having to process information.

Basically, it’s the difference between IO wait states, and CPU usage.

The Pi is absolutely a poor choice for input/output, period. Regardless of your “metrics” tell you, it’s data bus simply does not have the bandwidth necessary to control several hard drives at once with any sort of real world usability.

You’ve wasted your money on an entire ecosystem by trying to make it do something it wasn’t designed, nor has the capability, to do.

It’s bus limited, not necessarily CPU limited.