· My Roon server is on a Mac mini. There everything works fine. But on other devices “Audio” stays empty. All devices are on the same network and connected to the same Roon Server. The only difference is that the Mac Mini is wired and the rest on Wifi. On Mac mini all Audio devices appear. What is wrong?
Tell us about your home network
· Standard router. No VPN. I tried Roon before but this issue has never occured.
I use it on a MacBook and a iPhone. Om these i cannot select audio devices.
What i did was pull the internet cable from the Mac mini so it worked only on wifi. Just like de MB and IPhone. And… The audio devices showed up in MB and Iphone. But… for a short while.
Update: I was able to solve the problem. Not like the way I wanted, but ok. It seems that when my Mac mini is on an internet cable (wired) the Audio devices only show up in Roon on my Mac mini. But when I pulled out the cable and the Mac mini was only on Wifi, than the devices also appeared on my MacBook and iPhone. I idea why, because it’s the same network, but for now it solves the issue. I have to look how this is possible, because I prefer my Mac mini to be wired.
So far everyone thank you again for helping me
AceRimmer
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Still sounds like two networks as @MusicD suggested earlier.
The fact that wired causes issues does kind of hint that it has a different subnet at least.
Same network means same network segment. Ex 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.2.1 are different segments and roon would nit be able to speak to devices on the other.
It is very likely your router has set wired and wifi as different segments. Compare IP addresses next time to mske sure.
Glad you found a workaround! The root cause is likely that your Mac Mini has both Ethernet and WiFi active simultaneously. When both interfaces are enabled, macOS can advertise Roon on the wired interface while your WiFi devices miss the discovery traffic — even though everything is on the same router.
Could you try the following: disable WiFi on your Mac Mini while the Ethernet cable is connected (System Settings → WiFi → turn off), then check if the audio devices appear correctly on your MacBook and iPhone?
Additionally since you’re running macOS, the behavior you’re seeing is consistent with the newer, stricter Local Network permission controls in the recent macOS releases.
Please try the following steps:
Open macOS System Settings → Privacy & Security → Local Network
Make sure Roon and Roon Server are both enabled
Even if they are already enabled, please toggle them off and back on
Fully quit Roon Server from the macOS menu bar / task bar
Reboot your Mac
After reboot, launch Roon again and check if the devices is avaliable again.
Once these permissions are refreshed and the system restarted, your audio devices should reappear.
Please let us know if the issue persists after these steps, and we’ll continue from there.
I think this did the trick. The Audio devices keep showing. So i hope this stays the way.
Now I have one other problem before I can “rest my case”. Before I had the Roon server on my Synology. And my Music too. And with the right settings in Synology I could easily make sure Roon read the Music folder of my NAS. Now, I understood Roon needs to be installed on Synology via a docker. My Synology does not support dockers. So I have my Roon server on my Mac Mini. But… In no way i can add my Music folder on my NAS to be read by Roon anymore. I know I have all permissions right but still it says that it’s unautorized. Is there changed something too there?
Thanks for the follow-up! I’m glad to hear you’re generally up and running smoothly.
You can absolutely get your local music re-added as a network share from your NAS over to your server now running on your Mac.
Instead of looking at a local folder, your Mac Mini now has to connect to your Synology via a network protocol (SMB). The “Unauthorized” error almost always means that while the Synology permissions might look correct, the network sharing settings or the way the network path is being typed into Roon is causing a disconnect.
Some areas to investigate to get this connection setup:
Roon on macOS is very particular about the network protocols it uses to talk to a NAS.
Log into your Synology DSM.
Go to Control Panel > File Services > SMB tab.
Ensure Enable SMB service is checked.
Click on Advanced Settings.
Make sure the Maximum SMB protocol is set to SMB3, and the Minimum SMB protocol is set to SMB2 (Roon can struggle if it defaults to the legacy SMB1, or if SMB2 isn't explicitly allowed).
With that, try using the IP address of your Synology instead of its server name, as local name resolution can fail between macOS and Synology.
Format to use: smb://[IP_ADDRESS_OF_NAS]/[NAME_OF_MUSIC_FOLDER]
