Mi Box as Home Audio System Brains?

by Triplejaydee

Hello, I just got a Mi Box and would like to set it up in a way that I can explore an mp3 collection on my TV and listen to it through a soundbar. I would obviously need to plug in an external Hard Drive, but would love it if it could draw power from the Mi Box and not make noise or have too many lights. Do you have any recommendations for hard drives/flash drives/etc that could work well in this situation? I ordered a 500GB SSD drive and it's on its way, but now i'm not sure if it was the right thing to purchase.

Also, are there any good Leanback music player apps that could read the files from the external drive? or am I stuck with having to use File Explorer apps?

Thanks!

JimboLodisC

An SSD is overkill for just music.

Dunno what the music app situation is without browsing the Play Store, but I would actually recommend just uploading to Play Music.