Apple Mac Mini M1 running Roon + Plex

Roon Software Discussion
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Hello all

Is there anybody here using an Apple Mac Mini with an M1 chip to run Roon and also Plex on the same unit?

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Yes, I’m using Roon and Plex on a Mac Mini M1.

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Thanks @Danny_Koel

How much RAM and storage do you have? Do you store your files on an external HD?

Thanks!

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I have the 8GB RAM/256GB SSD version and I store my files on a 1TB external SSD.

I do not use Plex and Roon at the same time. Both servers are running, but I’m not encoding and playing at the same time. Never tried it though…

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Yeah that’s what I meant, both servers are running in the background at the same time?

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Yeah, with ease. During the day I use it as my office pc as well.
But I’m having some kernel panics and my Mac totally reboots. The exception report, reports Roon as a cause of the kernel panics. Still Have to create a topic with this issue. This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the use of Plex and Roon.

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You probably want 16GB of ram on the M1 for a large database like >100k tracks.

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Hum. That’s doesn’t sound good @Danny_Koel. What do you think caused it?

Thanks @wizardofoz. I think I’ll do that.

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Don’t know. Haven’t had the time to examine the logs. I don’t have a large database. It’s about 2500 tracks, so it’s not that I have a lot of load on the machine.

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So it could be related to the man itself.

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Sure, haha. Or it can be related to other software I’m running.
I’m using the PIA VPN client and I’m running Roon through the split tunnel option. If I don’t, I can’t logon to Tidal.
So much variables :smile:

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And then you just lost me…. :rofl::rofl::rofl: a split tunnel?? What’s that?

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:grin: No problem. With a split tunnel you can define apps that need to use the VPN connection and which apps don’t.

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Got it! Thanks!

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I run a Mac Mini M1 8Gb ram with Roon Core (40.000 tracks) and Plex at the same time, there is no problem at all. For a bigger music library or movie collection it is better to buy the 16Gb ram version, you don’t want swapping to the internal SSD.

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Alright. Continuing on this thread with more questions.

Anybody using a NAS to store the files but keep the core on the Mac mini? If so, what nas?

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I with an older synology 1813+ nas hosting about 300k tracks / 18tb of local music nas has in the past run Plex too

No issues. My nucleus backup also shares the same music files