Equipment:
Newly set-up NUC Rock Server (i5, 8th gen) with 1TB SSD for storage.
Network Details:
Rock server is hard wired to my ethernet switch. I have an Arris cable modem/router combination.
Audio Devices:
Nothing yet. I planned to see how it would work with my NAD M50.2 and it was recognized and enabled last night. I also enabled HDMI on the NUC itself but did not yet connect an HDMI cable.
Description Of Issue:
I copied my entire music library to the 1TB storage SSD yesterday using my Windows laptop. It took about 6 hours but all was good and I had Roon completely set up, except playlists were not showing up. I could see my entire library in Roon and in file explorer on my Windows laptop. I turned off the NUC server last night (and completely removed from power) and restarted it this morning. This time I opened Roon on my Android tablet and Roon started on the set up process all over again, starting with selecting my core. It asked me to add music and this is when I discovered my entire Music folder was gone. It still showed the āstorageā folder, so Roon does appear to recognize the 1TB SSD in the NUC. I opened my laptop and checked the Rock server folder and I see the same thingā¦ the āstorageā folder exists but it is completely empty. I hope I donāt have to copy all my music again. This is not a good start for Roon.
I donāt have it hooked up to a display right now but will do so later today. I did just disassemble the board and checked all the connections and everything looks good. I have it installed in an Akasa case. Everything is new, so it is possible that the SSD or other hardware is defective. I also verified in Windows that it is showing full storage capacity for the combined M.2 drive and storage SSD.
Is it possible that Roon formatted my SSD a second time, after I completed the set up ? I definitely did not do it myself.
Also, what is the shut down procedure for a Rock server. Do I need to shut down the server in the GUI or Roon app first before powering it off ? I donāt think I did a server shut down before powering off the NUC last night.
Odd that it shows the server software as having been running for over 4,000 daysā¦
So far as shutting down goes, I usually simply click on the red power icon top right, and select āpower offā. I donāt touch anything else.
Yes, in that order. I then went to the Roon app on Windows and selected the folder with the music files and Roon took about 15+ minutes to index the library. It was all there and I spent some time searching through the Roon library and also making some settings changes.
It is really strange. The only thing I can think of that I did wrong was manually shutting down the NUC instead of shutting down the server with the web gui.
I plan to copy just a few music files over tonight and see what it looks like tomorrow.
Make sure you didnāt somehow change the Roon āwatchedā folder by mistake. Looking at your screen shot, it doesnāt look like you made that mistake.
So I copied over one artist folder (Abba) and dropped it into the ROCKās āstorageā folder. There is an āInternalStorageā folder under the āStorageā folder. Iām wondering what is the purpose of this folder ? I think it is set as a āwatchedā folder by default.
Thanks for confirming. Could it be that the āInternalStorageā folder is the only folder that points to the SSD ? I copied the full library to the āStorageā folder yesterdayā¦ was I copying to the M.2 drive ? There would have been enough capacity but my M.2 drive shows less than 10 gb used currently.
I believe the āStorage\InternalStorageā path showed up after formatting my SSD. It is empty for me. Yesterday, I simply copied all my music files from an existing server to the āStorageā folder of my ROCK server using Windows file explorer. I agree that I should have copied to the lower level āInternalStorageā folder. It does look like Roon is designed to work with that folder by defaultā¦ but it is still puzzling as to what happened with all the music files I copied over. I could see the files in the āStorageā folder using Windows file explorer and I even spent some time editing my playlists (also in the āStorageā folder) because Roon was not recognizing them.
I just ask to ensure you will be in the correct folder when/if you move music again. That path you have up above doesnāt look anything like mine.
Maybe āStorageā is actually on the M2 drive (which will get erased). I donāt know about that.
But if you are in Internal storage now youāll be fine.
Youāll need to put all of your files in the InternalStorage folder. The base Storage folder is not persistent and anything placed there will not remain after a reboot.
