I only have approx 40 albums to load on the internal drive right now. Assume this is easiest way hence via the browser web UI:
I was planning to copy the music files from existing Mac to Roon via the browser UI on the Mac as the Roon sever will be disabled at that point and then drag drop. Will that work?
Yeah it should work. You won’t have folders with pretty names and structure for artist/album though, but maybe it doesn’t matter
One other question. Should I disable Roon Arc on my Mac core before the backup so it doesn’t take any Arc settings from the Mac?
I’m hoping once I get the N1 set up I can just change the ip address in my ubiquiti dream machine port forwarding rule to the N1 ip address. From the current Mac ip address. Will this work? Thanks.
I don’t think it matters. You will have to uninstall and reinstall the ARC app anyway, after switching Roon Servers.
So physically wipe the app on my iPhone then reinstall as the final step in setting it all up?
Yep. You will lose ARC downloads but it’s currently generally the case that ARC has to be uninstalled and reinstalled on the phone when switching to a different Roon Server
hey so now i’m stuck at the internal storage. I’ve disabled all the old but it does not find the internal storage ssd
What is the „it“ that doesn’t find the storage? Did you format the internal storage in the web UI?
yes formatted and now sees it. now i need to try and get the music files into it.
also any way to change the server name? it pulled the old name My-iMac and want to change it to N1
The server name is im Settings > General, I think.
For the internal storage please post screenshots of what you are seeing
weird i changed the name under setup but when i go to the general screen it still shows the old core name
Reboot maybe?
now i did the drag/drop method for moving music and just has spinning wheel. wish it was just simpler.
it’s just hung up on copying 1 of 27 files.
F*ck so now i went back into the web ui and it shows the FORMAT button again for the internal storage. Now what? Should I power off and format again? See this it what I can’t stand trying to “upgrade”.
But it says OK right below Internal Storage
So when I do the drag drop I get these 2 screens. If I click on add a folder it just comes up with second screen blank. I also did just try Yes Copy and only get spinning wheel
Would a much simpler way be to plug the usb stick in back or N1 and “import” to internal drive? Is that even possible?
It will ALWAYS show the Format button, whether or not there are files on the SSD. Don’t click it unless you really want to format the SSD
Thanks Geoff. Can you help with the above screen shots? Wish there was a simpler way to just get my music files on the internal drive.
You don’t “Add a folder” - you click the “Yes, copy!” button - that will copy them onto the SSD…
I tried that if you saw above but just gives spinning wheel forever and says coping 1/27 forever.
oh geez. now it just worked! glitch?
The identification phase can take a while - it has to match the files with the master Roon database in the cloud, and because the files won’t may not have any metadata in them, Roon has to go slower…
