I filled my 16GB card with FLAC files and it crashed Volume and trashed my SD card; can’t re-format and image. It worked flawlessly until it got down to the last few hundred MBs.
I was using an iMac to transfer the files via the “shared” connection and dropped them into the NAS folder. I would love to do this on a large scale, say 512GB if possible. Is there a proper way to achieve a self contained RPi3 DAP?
It is definetely possible, altough the SD Card is the worst place where to put all your files : the more you write at it, the more chances there are it gets corrupt.
So, if you want to do it, make sure you use a good quality SD Card.
If you can’t reimage your SD use sdcardformatter utility to try to rescue it: sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/
With 256gb micro sd cards hovering just over $100 you can store more music than you could listen to in a year.
My travel rig has at least a 2.000 songs.