I just received my Nucleus. I am installing a HD to serve as a repository for my music library. I’ve been on a Roon tryout and using my Mac for this. The music resides in a portable drive that will remain intact. I can disconnect it when I initiate the Nucleus, but am wondering if once reconnected to my Mac, will Nucleus see that as well? Does Nucleus see all music files and present duplicates in the UI? Also if two files exist for the same music, but one is of a lower quality, how does Nucleus handle that? Does it present both? Does it select the better format? Hope these aren’t silly questions.
Only if you enable file sharing on the Mac and configure the Nucleus to access this shared folder over the network.
There are two options to choose from, this is a setting in Roon:
- Show the album only once in the My Albums view, and group the different versions under a „Versions“ tab within the album. In this case, Roon would autoselect the version with the highest quality as the primary version (at least if all versions are local files. Otherwise, if some versions come from a streaming service, Roon will pick the local files as the primary version, even if the local files are mp3 and the streaming version is better. This can be changed manually but can be a hassle as it’s album-by-album)
- Show all versions next to each other in „My Albums“
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Thanks for the response. I have file sharing enabled over the LAN for other devices. I’ll see how this goes regarding the files and may have to make an adjustment. I see, unless I enable network share in the settings menu, the Nucleus doesn’t see any of the other devices on the network. I better read up on adding a drive to the Nucleus. Right now it doesn’t see it.
Not unless you explicitly shared your external HD connected to the Mac and enabled it in Roon as an SMB ‘watched’ folder, which you almost certainly don’t want to do.
Roon will display different resolution under the versions tab and will handle duplicates. But you really want to avoid having Roon index the same directory structure twice, albeit under different locations.
Are you planning to start afresh with the Nucleus? Or are you wanting to migrate your current Mac based Roon Server setup? If the later, have a good read of this wiki page first, if you haven’t already.
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The last part is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
When you say it doesn’t see it, do your mean it doesn’t appear in the web based admin interface or that it’s not appearing under watched folders in Roon itself? If the later you first need to go to the web admin interface and format it there.
I formatted the drive on my Mac to exFAT prior to installing it. I then discovered the Nucleus needs to format the drive. It now sees the drive installed and the available space.
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Well I have everything enabled on my Mac required for sharing across my network. However following the directions from the help center didn’t work. On the administrator page the drive is listed as OK with the storage specs and such. However on the Roon serve UI the drive is listed as “Disabled”. What am I missing?
I guess I need to learn the ‘nuances’ of the UI. The internal drive was listed as “Disabled”. When mousing over the word, it appears to be an interactive link. However clicking it did nothing. I forgot about the three LITTLE dots lol Moused over them, clicked and interacted with the menu to enable the drive. OK I’ll get used to the nuances.
The Nucleus is available on my Mac and it appears in the network section of Finder. I can paste or copy to and from the drive. However the share option isn’t working. I have 12 devices sharing on my network. But not the Nucleus. I cannot seem to get it to work according to the protocol.