How to transfer ONLY the non-physical (Tidal) part of my current Roon music library to new NUC

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I bought a NUC and want to transfer my music database to the new NUC. My Roon library consists of Tidal songs and songs that are stored on my local harddrive (Mac Mini).

I only want to backup the non-physical part of my music library, the part that runs through Tidal. I don’t want to include the harddisk stored music because a large part is not of the right quality and I have no storage space for music in my NUC.

How do I approach this? I’m afraid that if I use the regular backup method, I will soon encounter albums for which the data cannot be found and have a corrupt database.

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All Tidal content in your old Roon Library will be added automatically to your new Roon library (assuming you continue to use the same Roon account). This is because this content exists as Tidal favourites in the Tidal service and by design will be synced to your Roon Library.

If you don’t want to transfer your local media files to the new NUC, then you don’t need to take a backup of your old system and restore it on the new one.

This does mean that if you have edited metadata on Tidal content in the old system, you will need to repeat the edits on the new system.

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What if you disable your Roon watched folder before doing a backup?

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Good point - and that would preserve edits made to Tidal content…

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Backup and restore. You can either remove storage and do a library cleanup before backing up or after when restored. Backup is only your database it doesn’t do files so you have no worries about storage. You must remember to do a library cleanup to fully remove them from your library or they hang around in the database even if not shown. This keeps all history and any edits you may have on Tidal content.

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Thanks for your reply, getting some contradicting information about this topic. Are you sure this works?

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What? That Qobuz favourites are automatically synced to a Roon Server? Yes, that works.

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Just restore a backup. Then under Settings/Storage Disable (not delete) the previous physical storage location. That should do it.

You’ve gotten different suggestions, because there are subtly different ways to do nearly similar things, depending upon what your goal is.

  1. If you just want to setup a new server with just Tidal streaming and do not care about saving play counts, edits, or playlists, then don’t bother with a restore. Just setup the new system and log into your Tidal account. All your Tidal albums will sync up to the new server. Done.

  2. If you want to save your play counts, edits, etc, then you need to restore a backup. And then disable the storage location.