Manual subfolder scanning

[BlackJack]

@Steve_Hersch

Problem: the realtime scanning is very much hit-or-miss. I don’t expect that this is a Roon issue so much as an smb/linux/mac/synology issue.

You’re right about that.

Roon Causing Constant NAS HDD Access

Hey folks, Apologies for the slow response on this thread. This ended up with me, and the last 2 weeks have been a little bit busy So, I’ve discussed this issue with our dev team, and I think this is a side effect of how storage works in Roon. Roon is designed to watch your storage devices in real time, and when you add an album it should show up automatically. When your storage device is turned off, the albums it contains should disappear from Roon automatically as well, returning …

@Steve_Hersch

I let it sit for a few hours to see if it will eventually add them to Roon, but it doesn’t.

This should actually work, so I don’t know what goes wrong here.

But to make it short: If you need/want working real-time detection, don’t use a NAS to hold your music library for Roon. Use local (to your Roon Core) storage instead (internal and/or external via USB).
You can keep your NAS to hold a backup of your music library.

Update: Another opinion.

My experiences with Rock and a 500k+ tracks library

I hate NAS’s for music storage. I know that some people like them/need them, and we do support them, but I wouldn’t use one for Roon (or any software trying to manage 50-100k+ music files) for myself, regardless of library size. They don’t support real-time watching for file changes very well, scanning them over the network takes 10-20x (or more) as long as a local disk. Because they don’t support filesystem watching very well, you pretty much have to scan the whole folder tree periodically to …