In my experience and I can only speak of that, if your trying to access or use Roon whilst it’s building such a large library using all your NAS cores some pages may be slow. It would be best to let this run until it’s complete. What percentage is your CPU running at? You could throttle back the cores you are using to see if the overview page responds and listen to some music.
Personally, for a trial period I would have split my library up into smaller Music Folders (1TB or so) and added one folder at a time in the Roon Storage section. This way you could have tested Roon to see if it met your needs instead of waiting on the library being built but it’s up to you. Roon contains masses of information and comparing it with other software is a bit pointless but I understand your frustration.
Hope you get on okay. The guys on this forum are very helpful. Roon is great piece of music software and I’m sure you’ll be very happy when it’s up and running.
The split in music folders will not work as I have also JRiver running and I don’t want to hurt my existing setup. I want to compare also the library functions as this is key to me and also the ability to handle the size of it.
What I find so far is that Roon is non-responsive (whilst having enough memory, compute power and running on SSD) if I want to do anything besides building up my library. I cannot even access TIDAL tracks, the wait is just indefinite. I am holding my horses till it is fully done processing to see the final performance…
It’s a pain having to wait but the right thing to do. Pity about not being able to split your library but you don’t want to mess anything up with other software. My QNAP TS 473 runs my system perfectly. I can carry out multiple tasks with ease whilst listening to music without any dropouts or other problems. I know many people are changing to NUCs but for me and others on this forum with QNAPs it suits my needs better and easily does everything I want it to do. Hope you get on okay, it will be well worth it in the end. Fingers crossed
Mmh, running JRiver (does it also scan the library online?) together with Roon (while analyzing) can be a problem.
I’m using on the NAS only Roon, some DLNA-Servers and LMS, which have access to my music library directly.
My thought: Take your time an wait until Roon has finished the scan. After that you can start comparing, using filters, dsps,…
I would also agree with the other users, the original scan process does take quite a bit of resources, but if you don’t mind having the scan take longer and have more resources while this is going on, you can disable or throttle Background Audio Analysis under `Roon Settings -> Library and that should help a bit.
You are running a trial of Roon, then I suggest turning the Analysis OFF.
It is there to create volume leveling and to generate the nice looking waveform. Neither of which is much necessary to experiencing Roon. If you decide to stick with Roon then you can go through the whole analysis; when that is the case, i would suggest you turn it ON when you are not using the NAS (i.e. when you are sleeping) and then turn it OFF when you use it. It will take longer but it will be doing the analysis during the time you are not using the system.
Settings / Library (Background Audio Analysis Speed and On-Demand Audio Analysis Speed to OFF
I would still run a small test copying some of your music into another Shared Folder on your NAS rather than going through the pain of waiting hours on end with your existing library. Get it working first with help from support then import your main library. You can always remove that test folder afterwards and clean up the library in Roon.
I’ve had Roon working in various years, so I know it works however it’s feature set and stability has been a concern on a large library. So that’s why after 1,5 years since my last test, I decided to give it a go again. The full library is the first test, features next…
This sounds like there could be an issue with the database, can you please access your Roon logs by using these instructions and send me a set? If you don’t have Dropbox / Google Drive / ect. let me know and I can provide an alternate upload location.
Sorry started over again and now have a working setup after a couple of days. Slowly running the analysis on the library now after a backup so let’s see what happens
