Roon Core on a Dedicated Mac Mini or Shared Mac Pro?

[dbtom2 (Tom T)]

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Roon on macOS not working with huge library

Hi, I tried to use Roon for large library of 70k albums (DSD, HiRes, and CD in AIFFs). After completing the import of all albums Roon took 5 min to launch, 3 minutes to search anything, 1 minute to start playback of a song, and was having dropouts on playback of any song. Set-up: 2015 Mac Mini, i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe flash SSD, OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, music on Synology NAS and internal PCIe SSD. I decided to erase macOS, re-install Roon alone on Mac, import music from zero step by step. …