Best way to integrate my ripped cd flac files into Roon and play them

In a few days I will receive a flashdrive with 250 of my cds ripped to flac format on it. It isn’t clear exactly how I am to play these files and make use of the Roon software. Do I copy these files to a new folder on my desktop? For some reason this part of the process is not clear to me. Any help would be appreciated. I would like to be able to search for a cd within this personal cd library. Is this possible, or do all searches get put together, so that if I search for a particular composer I will see results from all the streaming sources I subscribe to,etc.

You will need to plug the flash drive into your PC and then “, point” Roon towards that drive with settings:storage.

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Is your desktop your Roon server? If so:

  1. Copy the files to a folder on the desktop machine
  2. Go to Roon>Settings>Storage
  3. Add the folder from 1 with “Add Folder”
  4. Roon will scan the new folder and try to identify the CDs
  5. You can use “Focus” to focus searches on just one storage folder if you want
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