Pointing RoonServer on NAS to music share on same NAS [Solved]

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Hi,
I have installed RoonServer on a Synology DS415+ and have it running - how do I point the server to the shared drive: /volume1/music on the same NAS?

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Hi,

go to settings, storage, add watched folder, select add local folder and type in exactly as you wrote it, it should work.

Note that as your RoonServer lives on the same NAS as your files, this is seeen as a local folder so “/volume1/music” and not as a network share “smb://yourNAS/music”.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks, I assume settings for the server, rather than the NAS.

If so I’m presented with a General tab (the default), Beta, Auto Updates, Packages Sources and Certificates none of which seem to give the option to add watched folder.

Steve.

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Ah I think I was looking in the wrong place as I was looking at the NAS, rather that the Roon app.

Trid adding a watched folder but can’t for the life of me work out the path - tried the IP address, also tried /volume1/music (the name of the shared drive, tried them together, tried the name of the NAS then /volume1/music and noting works, ummmmmmm.

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I’ve never seen these options in Roon. You need to setup the watched folder in RoonServer installed on your NAS. To do this you will need to run Roon from another computer on your network as a remote. Then follow the instructions above.

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Is this what you see when opening Roon control ?
Do you use an iPad or a PC ?

Under settings you should see the following tabs:

General, Storage, Services, Setup, Audio, Account.

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Ok good. Make sure you have the name exactly right, including the right case for each letter as that matters too.

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Yup sorted it, as stated I loaded my Roon app [as a remote] on my laptop which is linked to the RoonServer on my NAS, then selected Settings / Storage and clicked +add local folder then typed /volume1/music and it connected.

Thanks ALL.

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