I’m new with linux, I install audirvana on Ubuntu, and when I try to add my external drive ( I see it) but when I select it. I get an error message (in Audirvana remote). But If I try to add a memory stick it’s working?
Any Idea what I should do?
Thanks
Automount your external drive at boot following this guide and you should be able to select it.
Be careful to follow the steps exactly, especially doing sudo mount -a before reboot to ensure there are no errors that would prevent booting into Linux again.
Thank’s it’s working now
One problem with editing the etc/fstab file I encountered is when you forget to plug in the external drive, at least in Ubuntu, the etc/fstab file is wiped out. And Ubuntu becomes unstable.
I don’t know how to re-install the etc/fstab file and where to place it. I‘d prefer Audirvāna to update their Linux versions so that an external drive is automatically mounted. Most other player apps do this automatically.
If you’re able to boot, you have an /etc/fstab file, and it’s named for its location, the fstab file in the /etc directory.
If you have the nano editor installed, issue the nano /etc/fstab command to see what’s there now without changing anything. If you want to change it and know what you want the changes to be, issue sudo nano /etc/fstab. After editing, issue sudo systemctl daemon-reload then sudo mount -a to be sure you get no error messages. You should then be good to go.
Using the Nano Editor, which is definitely installed as I used it to edit the etc/fstab file in the first place, it tells me that it cannot find the fstab file. When listing the etc directory, there is indeed no fstab file.
Strange! I cannot show screenshots as I re-installed Ubuntu on my computer as it threw a lot of error messages at me 
Reinstalling I think was very much the wisest course.
Carefully following the steps here has always worked for me (I install the ntfs-3g driver first because my external drive is NTFS formatted):
Of course, the outlined procedure works perfectly. My SSD was exfat formatted. This all OK till I forgot to have the external drive attached when I powered the computer up. It took a long time to start it up while it was looking for the drive. At first sight, Ubuntu ran normally, but when I initiated a software, lots of error messages popped up saying that the OS has internal problems. I suspected a problem with the fstab file and wanted to edit it. But it wasn‘t in the etc directory anymore.
Others might encounter the same, therefore it would be good if automounting a drive would be included in Audirvana‘s Linux version.
Do you have some notion of how other players you spoke of accomplish this? I know I personally might not want to have a player automount external drives if I hadn’t asked, but that’s just my own preference.
I might not have expressed myself clearly. What I meant is that other players such as JRiver and Roon automatically recognise an attached drive and mount it automatically. I guess this should be possible within Linux, too.
I think I understood what you were saying, it’s just that in my case I might not want all my attached drives automatically mounted, only those I’ve specified in fstab. In your situation you’re saying it’s more convenient for the app just to go ahead and automatically mount the attached drive(s), is that correct?