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OK, I found ~/.config/UMS/UMS.conf

It already has:
scan_shared_folders_on_startup = false

... so I guess the disk activity I hear on startup (which only lasts 30 seconds or so) is not a full scan of the shared folders.

Can anyone recommend a simple media server (only needs to support audio ...

I don't know anything about how to do playlists but I know if you use the web player to access UMS, the ID's are dynamic and are generated on the fly when a folder is browsed so are not guaranteed to be the same across restarts.


Right, it's the extent to which the IDs are dynamic that I'm ...

(I suspect this isn't a bug as such, so I haven't yet followed the instructions for collecting "debug information" as described in the "How to ask for support" page. Happy to do so if needed.)

My UMS (13.8.1, running on GNU/Linux Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS build 6.5.0-26-generic 64-bit) seems to build ...