As far as I understand, on your high-bandwidth local area network, UAPP can stream music stored on your WDMyCloud SMB/Samba server; and on the go, likely on a lower bandwidth wide area network, UAPP can't.
About UAPP streaming vs. "WDMyCloud app" streaming, on the go, the throughput rate can vary considerably. And UAPP should likely have some higher flow rate minimum threshold value for SMB/Samba streaming.
In my understanding, the Samba protocol works only on a local network. When on the go, if I want to play music on UAPP, which still is on the WDMyCloud NAS, I don't stream it, I download it to the handy, so I can feed it to UAPP.
Since I cannot choose whereto the files are downloaded (the directory is defined by the WDMyCloud app, on the phone's storage), I am left with the following choice:
- I can navigate in UAPP to the default directory (and back when I will listen to music in the standard location on the external SD card). This is cumbersome
- I can move the downloaded files to the directory where I store most of the music - this is actually easy on my phone.
- ... and I discovered that
the media server in UAPP scans the whole device (the phone's storage as well as the external SD card), so there is no need to navigate... if the files I import via WDMyCloud are tagged carefully.
This last option solves my problem. The only drawback is that I did not find any means to trigger a scan, so I have to wait that UAPP itself takes the initiative. This can last for a few hours. If I did miss something, please tell me.
In any case, I appreciate very much UAPP, also for setting the priority on sound quality and not, as so many other pieces of soft, on user confort, big numbers, integration with social networks and so on.
