I think it can be a good thing, and while it is better than not doing it it is no comparison to an expert. This is not to say it’s worthless or anything though!

Someone has to say it: when you’re asking these questions it shows that you still have a lot to learn. That itself is fine.

But you’re at significant risk when putting a service on the internet so it would be best maybe to have someone at your side to assist you with beginner mistakes.

No. I still have no use for it and everything I use is automated without at a far lower footprint.

Yes it’s one of those things they removed to upsell internal storage.

Also, with music on the phone itself you’ll never have communication issues while playing.

It is indeed and it has absolutely no dependencies, which is what I am going for.

Copy stuff from my nas to phone (cable or x-plore), play independently with pulsar+

Short: don’t do anything manually, throw it into a ansible playbook. Save it somewhere.