Hi,

First health warning, this is for those like me who are a bit technically minded and impatient for the release to support NFS how do do NFS manually.

I was driven to this by the frequent drop outs mounting my drive by hand without NFS being fully installed (Driving me mad listening to Cold Play occasionally popping/crackling/stuttering or sounding like it was going down a plug hole!). Sitting here now for the last hour or so no drop outs (I was getting it every 3-4 min or so) strangely on 320Kps MP3 it was fine as was. So no USB issues as far as I can tell (Only my choice of music for some ..) just network transfer speed which was also reported on Streaming High Def Blu-Rays on the PI.

Like I said don't flame me it works for me so I leave the breadcrumbs behind so people don't need to spend hours researching

This is on RaspyFI 1.0 release using the great USB DAC solution in the project (SABRE Dac).

Here we go:

sudo apt-get install nfs-common portmap
sudo mkdir /mnt/Music (Or what ever you want to call your music mount)
chmod +777 /mnt/Music

in my /etc/fstab:
XX:YYY:ZZZ:AAA:/YourMusicDrive /mnt/Music nfs _netdev,udp,rsize=65535,ro,intr,noatime,nfsvers=3,async 0 0
(Settings stolen from how to get High Def working in RASPBMC and it plays stutter free Blu-Rays (Circa 25GB) on my PI for DTS-HD so a 34Mb Flac should be fine)

Substitute your NFS Server and your mount export from the NFS server.

Now controversially in the mpd.conf
music_directory "/mnt/Music"

I suppose I could mount it different but struggle to find out how so it was a dumb way of doing it.

Now in a shell script:
sudo /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-common start
sudo mount -a
sudo /etc/init.d mpd restart

Viola you have manual NFS and no drop outs.
Only bugbear is you have to run the shell script every time you reboot ho hum and it is ugly restarting MPD. Also you loose some of the other functionality of MPD but as a straight forward music player it is fine for me.

Again thanks team for a great piece of software I look forward to removing my manual cranking

Dave