My Roon review after 10days

[Bill_Janssen (Wigwam wool socks now on asymmetrical isolation feet!)]

@WK_Tang

But I don’t understand why some friends here installed ROON in the NAS even they have a Mac in the system.

Well, I wanted to keep my music on my NAS, and it’s not good to have the Core elsewhere if you do that. So that’s one possible reason. Best to have them local to the Core.

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 …