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.

    • remon@ani.socialEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Yep both, especially searchig for specific episode titles which are very often not included in the filenames. Or with anime, where many shows can have half a dozend different titles.

      Also to keep track of what I watched and being able to easily resume watching on a different platform.