OK, right, so that would explain the confusing fact that scanning works but using service doesn’t. Please revert that change so you run everything as the mopidy user. Running as root is never the correct answer.
If sounds like this is another permissions problem. The Mopidy service (and mopidyctl) run as user mopidy
and must be able to access the files on the mounted filesystem. I would guess the mount options need changing.