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.

  • knF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’m one or those as well, but instead of VLC I use NOVA player on Android devices because of the remote sync.

    Said that I’m using WebDAV shares as SMB is way slower. Is it just me? Any other protocol suggestion?