I have network storage. That’s it.

I want to watch anime? I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC. I want to listen to music while on my walk? I open Solid Explorer on my phone and play the MP3. I want to read ebooks? I just open the file in whatever reader app I want.

I have 5TiB of media and I’ve never felt the need to set up any kind of hosted frontend.

What am I missing out on? Anyone else run their NAS like this?

Thanks all.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I don’t really get the whole NAS thing i must admit. Most of what I read about what people are doing is enabling slacker family and friends ? (That’s not a critisism, just an observation)

    I have a TV, a HDD connected on the router and Kodi on the Nvidia Shield Pro. Any music is stored on my phone, or streamed via Netradio

    I very occasionally copy media across to my phone to watch and then… it sits there and I dont watch it.

    My parter uses Kodi on the TV occasioanly.

    I don’t stream anything aside from some YT occasionally (DIY etc)

    I get people do endless shit with their NAS, or server but I’m am retired and don’t have the time

    Books are managed via Calibre on a a Kobo.