I have an additional SSD on my Rock Core machine to store music. The SSD is recognized as “Roon Optimized Core Kit Internal Storage”.
I found the SSD can be accessed via Network Share option (“\rock\data”) as well.
Wonder if there are differences or disadvantages in using the Network Share option to play music from using the default location of “Roon Optimized Core Kit Internal Storage” ?
Any comment is appreciated.
You want to use the default location as it is part of the local file system.
The network share is available so you can access and add media from another computer.
As @Robem says, select the local filesystem with ROCK.
Thanks for the note.
The reason I am asking for comments because the Network Share option would allow me to enable and disable individual folders on the SSD.
With default location option, all folders are treated as one and don’t have the enable/disable flexibility.
Theoretically, the path for playing music files is shorter via the default location. But frankly I don’t hear any sonic difference when playing music thru the Network Share.
You can do that within Roon directly. Simply navigate to the relevant folders, and watch each one individually rather than the root folder for your music.
Not on an internal Rock storage drive. It is always watches the entire drive…
There isn’t. Both ways work.
Ah, okay. It must be different to a USB drive. I used to have separate folders.
The default location is generated by the Roon system. Folders inside cannot be accessed individually. I wish I could.
You can watch individual folders on an external drive, but not an internal drive.
Yeah. Too bad.
Hope this feature will be implemented.
Dear Tom,
May I ask whether you use the network share option for your local storage now? I am really looking for the opportunity to enable and disable individual folders on the internal ssd of my Roon Rock server, land this may be the way to go.
Thanks!
No, I didn’t use the network share option since I put my files in different locations. I only put one or two of my favorite groups of music onto the local storage. Others not listened frequently muisc, I put them onto NAS.
Thanks for the quick reply! I am trying it now. I have (amongst others) a “curated” folder, that’s the one I use as a standard, and one folder that contains all my digital music. Because the latter contains also all music in the curated folder, it’s getting a bit difficult with all the doubles… so I like to deactivate the all-music-folder as a standard.
It’s seems to work fine via the network share option, thanks a lot for letting me know via your post! I really appreciate to being able to put it on the internal SSD of my Rock and being able to deactivate the folder. I have no NAS and would have needed to buy an extra external SSD (my Rock being in my music room and an external HDD being too loud).
I had to trick a bit with keeping all my favourites, tags etc., but with deactivating the internal storage first and then activating the curated folder via network share Roon kept them all. This is just a great software, I’m very happy 
Great.
The network share is a good option since I like to categorize different music into different folders and subfolders so that I can locate them easily.
I thought about putting all my files onto the local storage using the network share option in the beginning. But after a second thought, I put those music I don’t listen much onto the NAS instead. This not only saves a lot of space on my local SSD but also reduces time when track analyses are required to be running in the background.
You still need an external drive or network share to backup the database.
Yes I would definitely do it if I had a NAS anyway. What we have in common is that we like to organise in folders; I have now also two separate folders for DSD files and for digitised vinyl.
Thanks, yes, for sure. I have all my music in a cloud that is synchronised with two laptops. And I rather have new music there first and then put it on the SSD of my ROCK. Sometimes I do that with Windows’ robocopy function for, well, semi-automatic synchronisation.
There is no way to enable or disable particular folders when your music is stored on the ROCK internal drive still?
Dear community,
I have one question: if I access my local music through SMB (to be able to access individual folders on the 2.5" internal SSD), e.g. via \rock\data etc., does it mean the music goes through my home network, so to speak leaving ROCK before returning to be processed (e.g. sample rate conversion)?
