Announcing Roon Server packages for QNAP and Synology

Installed Roon on my Qnap 451S, worked in 2 minutes, love it !

Installed Roon on my Qnap 453 8GB, worked in 60 minutes, love it but…
unfortunately turned out a little later that my QNAP is not fast enough.
So I went back to my very fast PC.
A new i7 NAS is to expensive at this moment…

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Thank you Roon Labs and @crieke for your Really Great Work!!

I enjoyed Chirstopher’s .spk from April :wink:
My DS1515+ works very fine and
it can output to OPPO BDP-105 USB Audio via DS1515+ usb connection.

Happy user of the awesome @crieke package. Great to see the formal endorsement, excellent community embracing!!
Well done to @danny and @crieke both!

here here! bravo @crieke & @danny

I’ve migrated yesterday my Roon server within 10min from my Windows machine to my Synology RackStation without any issues. Many many thanks for the Synology package!

I have a QNAP 453 pro 8gB ram I was running Roon on via Linux station. Just switched to the dedicated package (@crieke) package and an SSD, everything is now slightly snappier, could not get local share working so reverted to SMB for now, but many thanks Christopher for developing and supporting this package.

Bob

I have similar experience with same NAS and RAM. Seems the stated minimum requirements are realistic.

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Hello Robert,

Could you clarify in what extend it is not fast enough with the NAS : display on a computer or tablet, indexation of titles, analyses of the titles ?

Thanks for your feedback

Everything is perfectly fast enough, my comment was that the native QNAP package developed by Christopher is slightly faster than a linux VM running Roon as you would expect. The VM version runs a version of Linux under the QNAP OS which is in itself a linux core. The native package is an app that runs directly on the QNAP OS. the SSD helps as well as that handles database tasks.

Bob

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I use to have RoonServer on a QNAP TS-251+ on a FEDORA VM with 8Go memory and I was quite happy.
I had the opportunity to obtain a Brix i7/32GoRam/SSD M2 500Go and i install roonserver on it under Fedora 24.
I must say that I’m not sure to really feel any difference when I use Roon through my iPad but fore sure indexation of my 30.000titles is very slow through the network (gigabyte…) as RoonServer on the brix is indexing files on the NAS through NFS…After 4 days just 50% of the audio has been analysed.
With everything on the QNAP in 2 days the audio analyze was performed…

Just for thought

@Patatorz – network file transfer of all the audio data is going to be much slower than local access. Running Roon Server on the NAS avoids the network transfer.

Your NAS is spending more CPU time and make more heat to do that same analysis, but your network is even slower than that expenditure. That’s why the i7 analysis is taking longer. Pretty much everything else will be slower on the NAS compared to your i7.

Thanks Danny, it was my conclusion : the difference between local and “remote through network”.
I will make my test to ensure that the i7 makes sense with my collection

Are there any advantages, sonic or otherwise, to eliminating the PC and having a NAS run Roon and handle storage? Right now I’m running Roon off my laptop with music in an external hard drive plugged into the laptop’s usb port. I’m streaming music from my PC to a Meridian Sooloos MS600 in my living room.

In your setup with the MS600, there will be no sonic advantages or disadvantages.

If you NAS is better spec’d than your PC, then your Roon experience will get better. If your PC is better spec’d, the experience will get worse.

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Thanks to the Roon crew and of course @crieke for creating the packages for NAS!
Installation and prep took less than 10minutes yesterday night. Roon is now sounding excellent and reponding really nice as a native QNAP application.
And that is with some 70.000 songs loaded!
(TS470 Pro with i3 and 16Gb Ram)

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