QQ Media Player NUC Buyers Club - Discussion

[riskylogic]

If the NUC runs LibreElec (Linux), like the QQ NUCs, users can access over a network from another PC or Mac etc to copy files onto the internal SSD or an USB drive attached to the NUC.

EDIT: What is the NUC model please?

I'm on my PC now and this is my Windows File Explorer looking at a NUC's internal SSD drive over my home network (NUC's named LIBREELEC):

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I can copy files/ delete files, folders etc whatever, just like those folders/files are on my PC

The NUC model is NUC11TNHi5. The flash drive I use is external connected with USB-C

 

[HomerJAU]

I have a NUC11TNKi3 Its a beauty! I love the 2.5GBE network speed. This is perfect for LibreElec.

This will run as a 'QQ Special Ed. NUC' by just removing the internal drive and inserting an NVME SSD 'burned' with the QQ image.

Linux is not tied to a specific PC config. Windows locks itself to a config to stop users from copying it. LibreElec (Linux based) is free, as long as you have an x86 Intel processor, just use an image from another x86 devices and bang it runs.

It will boot directly to Kodi on start-up, no delay with Windows start-up. No automated updates, no Windows service running in the background. You can keep using your external drive.

Adding the new NVME will be very simple and this will perform like lighting.

Do you know what the internal drive is now? You maybe able to use that for additional internal storage and not for Windows.

Tell me about the External USB-C flash drive too. Do you move that around?

 

[riskylogic]

I have a NUC11TNKi3 Its a beauty! I love the 2.5GBE network speed. This is perfect for LibreElec.

This will run as a 'QQ Special Ed. NUC' by just removing the internal drive and inserting an NVME SSD 'burned' with the QQ image.

Linux is not tied to a specific PC config. Windows locks itself to a config to stop users from copying it. LibreElec (Linux based) is free, as long as you have an x86 Intel processor, just use an image from another x86 devices and bang it runs.

It will boot directly to Kodi on start-up, no delay with Windows start-up. No automated updates, no Windows service running in the background. You can keep using your external drive.

Adding the new NVME will be very simple and this will perform like lighting.

Do you know what the internal drive is now? You maybe able to use that for additional internal storage and not for Windows.

Tell me about the External USB-C flash drive too. Do you move that around?

The internal drive is <1 TB. Not near enough for my catalog. When I got the external drive I initially copied onto it from another computer. Then I figured out I could do it over local network.

So yeah, I'll try it

 

[HomerJAU]

The internal drive is <1 TB. Not near enough for my catalog.

Do you want to store Media on the NUC? That's nice if you move your Media Player around.

If its a dedicated player then external drives or a NAS if you want to 20TB+ is the go. A NAS will give a level of automated data redundancy too, more so than a single USB drive with zero fault tolerance.

Those small 2.5 inch USB drives are not great long term

 

[riskylogic]

Do you want to store Media on the NUC? That's nice if you move your Media Player around.

If its a dedicated player then external drives or a NAS if you want to 20TB+ is the go. A NAS will give a level of automated data redundancy too, more so than a single USB drive with zero fault tolerance.

Those small 2.5 inch USB drives are not great long term

I have NAS too. I play 5.1 from it but I didn't think Atmos from the NUC was doable.

 

[HomerJAU]

Cool. You are all set then! (except for your Atmos discs!!)

If you have an AVR with Atmos decoder, your NUC will send TrueHD (inc. Atmos) stream to the AVR and you get the full deal.

So all you need is one of the QQ NUC NVMEs, install it (4 screws in base, 1 small screw to hold the NVME SSD), close it up, reboot and you have Kodi.

Add your NAS share folder. Scan. Done.

A 500GB NVME SSD will be around $40 + tax and shipping. Paul @LuvMyQuad will need to burn the NVME, so maybe a small donation to him would be nice.

Contact him direct via PM. All the 500GB NVMEs for Round 1 and Round 2 are allocated. We will buy more for Round 3 soon, so we can add one for you.

THX

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I've got a NUC running Kodi that I have been using for Atmos playback for a little over two years. Stopped working all of a sudden. I was just getting stereo until I changed the Kodi audio settings to WASAPI that had somehow gone to the default. But that just gets me 5.1. What am I missing? Seems like there was another setting in Windows, but WASAPI isn't a choice there. Maybe a Windows update made it go away. Downloaded the newest version of Kosi but that didn't help. Any ideas?

Be sure the WASAPI driver is the selected as the audio device as well as the passthrough device.

 

[PK]

If its a dedicated player then external drives or a NAS if you want to 20TB+ is the go. A NAS will give a level of automated data redundancy too, more so than a single USB drive with zero fault tolerance.

Those small 2.5 inch USB drives are not great long term

Hey Garry, do you have a NAS recommendation or point me in the right direction? I was looking at Synology as they seem to be popular with folks here. No idea what to look for...Thanks, PK

 

[HomerJAU]

I’ve had Synology NASs only. I like the simple user interface too.

That’s my recommendation although I’ve never used any other. They do have a good reputation. Taiwanese not from China.

I always recommend buying 3 drives at a time, and setting them up as RAID 5 (1 of the 3 can fail and no data is lost).

Synology don’t sell a NAS with 3 bays, they do have a 6 bay which will take 2 x Raid 5. That would give you an expansion option later. Buy a 6 bay but only buy 3 drives. When they a full, buy 3 more drives.

For drives WD Red Pro only. If you can’t afford big Red Pros, buy smaller Red Pros.

Finally NASs that support btrfs file system will auto fix bit rot, so look for one that supports btfrs.

If you spend hundreds of hours ripping discs over a few years, you don’t want to have to do it again! A NAS may well hold every disc you’ve ever purchased, don’t skimp on quality (drives, RAID arrays, btfrs, all these make it less likely of a major failure etc)

Synology DS + series is ideal, but any NAS with RAID is better than using external hard drives or individual drives.

 

[HomerJAU]

Synology as they seem to be popular with folks here

This is a big plus as you can get help here too.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Synology is also very good about providing regular firmware updates when needed.

 

[riskylogic]

Be sure the WASAPI driver is the selected as the audio device as well as the passthrough device.

Ah yes, the passthrough device setting. Had to scroll down to find it. That did the trick.

ETA: I sort of hate to mess with a working system, but sign me up for Round 3.

 

[PK]

I’ve had Synology NASs only. I like the simple user interface too.

That’s my recommendation although I’ve never used any other. They do have a good reputation. Taiwanese not from China.

I always recommend buying 3 drives at a time, and setting them up as RAID 5 (1 of the 3 can fail and no data is lost).

Synology don’t sell a NAS with 3 bays, they do have a 6 bay which will take 2 x Raid 5. That would give you an expansion option later. Buy a 6 bay but only buy 3 drives. When they a full, buy 3 more drives.

For drives WD Red Pro only. If you can’t afford big Red Pros, buy smaller Red Pros.

Finally NASs that support btrfs file system will auto fix bit rot, so look for one that supports btfrs.

If you spend hundreds of hours ripping discs over a few years, you don’t want to have to do it again! A NAS may well hold every disc you’ve ever purchased, don’t skimp on quality (drives, RAID arrays, btfrs, all these make it less likely of a major failure etc)

Synology DS + series is ideal, but any NAS with RAID is better than using external hard drives or individual drives.

Got it...

• Synology DS+
• 6 Bay
• btrfs support
• raid 5
• WD Red Pro Drives (3)

Big WD Red Pro's? Small? Not sure how much storage I need...guessing bigger is better...
OK this gets me going...I'll check it out...Thanks, PK

 

[HomerJAU]

Big WD Red Pro's? Small? Not sure how much storage I need...guessing bigger is better...

When I first started on my journey to digitise my collection I was only thinking of music. I had been collecting movies but it’s not a problem to grab a disc and watch for 2hrs. With music, it’s a constant disc change. And finding a disc? I had custom cabinets to store them. You end up storing them by size not by artist. I couldn’t handle it

I bought a 4 bay NAS, 4TB drives. All good.

Then: I ripped all my concerts. HD BDVs start eating disc space.

I’ve collected war movies for years. I’ll do those now!

Then I buy bigger disks. Now I store all my other movies, then TV series. I buy another 5 Bay expansion NAS.

Having retired, it became my project to do everything I knew I’d want to watch again…

I buy a 12 bay NAS and bigger drives again!

My advice: Get bigger drives. 3 x16TB in RAID 5 drives you 32TB of usable storage (the rest is used for data redundancy, 1 drive can fail and you still have all your data).

 

[esimms86]

12 bays!

 

[HomerJAU]

12 bays!

I didn’t complete my story… As America sings: “On the first part of the journey…”

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Something else to keep in mind. If you have home security that is video based, you can have all survalence video directed to a network connected nas. No worrys about running out of room. It can also hold photos. So there are some advantages to getting a larger nas than you jeed for just music

 

[HomerJAU]

And my wife and I backup our PCs and Macs to a NAS.

 

[LuvMyQuad]

And my wife and I backup our PCs and Macs to a NAS.

I meant to say that too