You could look into low profile GPUs. Off the top of my head, the 3050 is probably the strongest of those, unless you’re willing to look into the A-class cards

Will this work even if the drives are different sizes?

I tried Tempo and it seems to do the job well!

There’s some features I wish were present, like selecting multiple songs, but the feature list is quite good regardless

As AMD, Intel, Tenstorrent, and other companies develop better hardware, more software developers will be inclined to design for these platforms, and Nvidia’s CUDA dominance could ease over time.

This seems a bit optimistic to me. CUDA is currently the de facto method of utilising a GPU’s power efficiently. This makes them an easy choice for anyone with serious compute power needs. The other manufacturers are fighting an uphill battle trying to create an alternative that won’t be used until it is definitively better.

This just seems like a catch 22 to me

I’ve used phind a few times and it’s pretty good. I’m not sure if it’s open source, though

Thank you for the suggestions, I managed to find a solution that works for me.

Setting up hardlinks to the original file in other directories through Linux allows the data to be accessed from both locations and is detected by (seemingly) every OS!

This is probably a very clunky way to do it, but it works for what I’m currently looking for.

Yes, I’ve done that.

I wanted to be able to have all my movies in one folder while having shortcuts to those movies in genre-specific folders. All on the same NAS

And would I be able to send files from the Android phone to the server?