Roon import

[Mark_Sealey]

Thanks, Alex!

@Alejandro_Diaz

I use the word nucleus as the nucleus one black box server mfg by Roon.

Good. Yes. I wanted to distinguish between Nucleus the location for the Roon server on the one hand and Nucleus the location for all your music files on the other.

Nucleus is not connected to my computer, I never use my computer to access Nucleus always from the roon app on a tablet or phone. Roon nucleus is the roon server.

I for one don’t have enough experience of using Roon with non-desktop devices; so we should wait for someone who has to jump in. They will confirm whether you are able actually to run Roon on a portable device, like yours, or only to control Roon on a desktop from those. I suspect the latter.

In the meantime, I’m still a little confused when you said:

…attempting to import from my computer to my albums…

and

…I am logging in my Roon account on the computer and attempt to drag the files from file explorer (just one album) in my computer…

I suspect that there may be some confusion here about the kind of architecture (devices and connections) which Roon supported and expects.

On storage I see
Folders…+add folders where I think we can set up the watch folder in my computer?

Exactly! And in the case of someone who owns a Nucleus, that Watched Folder should be on that Nucleus - following the advice given in @daniel’s post above.

Then below
Nucleus one internal storage, watching for new files in real life, so the hard drive is there inside the nucleus but nothing is there.

Yes; that’s what I would expect. But the reason that you can see no files is that you have yet to copy (drag) music files in one of the formats which Roon supports into your Roon Library on Nucleus. I can only advise on how to do this from a desktop device.

My thinking right or wrong is that by placing the files on the nucleus server I don’t need my computer any longer, files are hosted there.

You do need a ‘client’ (which I have only experience of when it is a desktop device - running macOS or Windows) to access, fetch and play your music files.

In other words can I avoid the nucleus server computer relationship after the files move to the nucleus hard drive?

I don’t believe so. You can certainly run/control Roon from a portable device like an iPhone. You can listen to files to which Roon has access using ARC. But I only have experience of the Roon ‘core’/‘client’ running on a fully-powered desktop machine.

In your case, we shall be able to talk you through the ways to set this up; I don’t think it will be too disappointing for you to adjust your thinking - unless you have some critical reason why you don’t want to include your computer in the process.