Is there a specific reason to mount the lun directly opposed to creating a virtual disk? Performance, maybe?

I use Lidarr on one of my servers to automate downloads/tagging/placement of music on my NAS, so I don’t honestly know. Sorry! 😔

I don’t know any of the software you mentioned, but looking at a screnshot from Puddletag I would assume you first need to mount your share.

I know, that’s why I wrote external peripherals and not external inputs. I don’t want to sound cocky or be an asshole (we all know how easy it is by just reading a message someone you don’t know wrote), but after 24 years of being in system administration/engineering/architecture I may have sufficient grasp of what I am talking about. 😅

I would guess by plugging external peripherals to the motherboard.