unfortunately i left beaten track slightly with volumio and problems have shown up.
Until now I used small usb stick for playback but I want to use internal SD storage , I bought large 250gb card for this to have lots of room, I thought it would be very simple to connect card reader to my computer and copy music to sd card.
First, the volumio partition only used small amount of space on card, I had to force it to use all with an obscure trick of putting empty file called “resize-volumio-datapart” in the directory.
Then there was no 'dyn/data/INTERNAL' folder that should be there to store the files, I tried making it manually as one post suggested but volumio just ignores it.
The intended way is copy over network, or so I read. I added SMB drive on a computer for the INTERNAL folder ( \\volumio.local\Internal Storage ), it connected succesfully and first appeared I could copy things over and they show up in volumio but they are all empty 0kb files, only the file name is intact.
Next I tried again to locally copy files to the SD with card reader into the INTERNAL folder that volumio created itself when I connected SMB drive.
It worked this time somehow and the files were visible and playable in volumio, I did not like this long and tedious process for a hodge podge solution.
But this solution is still no good, Only loose files can be added, folders do not show up, some of my music files have no meta data or VA albums metadata splits up the tracks up in 'artist' view so I just like to browse music folders as they are stored... it worked for USB drive, can I really not do this with the INTERNAL storage folder?
If instead I create a seperate partition from unallocated space on the sd instead of expanding the volumio partition will I be able to detect and use it like a normal USB drive?
Volumio shows options for USB, NAS and INTERNAL in the music library, a seperate SD partition does not fall under any of these so I already feel like it will not work... very frustrating