Help !

Almarg.

Interesting on the ext4 info.

As I said JRiver was able to read, catalog, play and even rip back to a cdr again my copied Bluesound Vault drive on a Windows10 PC.
And I made a USB thumb drive with selected albums from it to play on my Ayre EX8 direct from one of its USB ports which also works just fine.

I sold my Vault but still have the backed up hard drive with all the ripped CD on and still have all my original CD in boxes up in the loft.

So I am real glad JRiver could read it as saved me having to rip them all again.

@Uberwaltz, thanks for providing that info.

And I made a USB thumb drive with selected albums from it to play on my Ayre EX8 direct from one of its USB ports which also works just fine.

I wouldn't count on that, though, as indicating that copying to a hard drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) connected to one of the Vault's USB ports would work. Chances are the thumb drive was formatted with the FAT32 file system, which Windows, Macs, and the Linux operating system that is presumably used by the Vault can all work with. But it would likely be a different story with an HDD or SSD, that would usually be formatted in NTFS (for Windows) or APFS or its predecessor HFS+ (for Macs).

As big_greg indicated, though, a Windows or Mac computer communicating with the Vault via a network (i.e., with the Vault being used as a NAS) should be able to copy its stored files, and write them to either an internal or external drive on that computer. Was that what you were doing when you copied the Vault's files using JRiver?

BTW, as a point of information, many stand-alone computer-like devices run Linux.  Presumably because it is free, and possibly in some cases also because it is "open source" and can be modified.

Best,

-- Al

A lot of fuss about CDs that really don't take up that much room. At least I've learned about a lot of storage methods with 3 and 4 letter acronyms that I never heard of before.

As long as they’re stored vertically 🔝 I have no comments. 

Can’t thank all you guys enough , so many intelligent answers !
I decided to go the roberjenman route, at least for now.Just ordered 5 wallets each holding 250 which will fit into my condo storage closet easily . 150 $ from Amazon .