Apologies if there’s a better sub-form for this (mods - feel free to move if necessary). I wanted to gauge some pros and cons of running Roon on something like a Linux Mint install vs a dedicated ROCK install?

Been using it as I suggested since getting the NUC and I’ve had no problems. Needing to have the PC on defeats the entire purpose and expense of having a NUC/Rock. In that case I may as well have just run the Roon core on the Win PC.

Why do you need to have the files accessible from your Windows PC at all?

I rip CDs using the PC and copy them across to the ROCK’s attached drive.

[image] norliss: I rip CDs using the PC and copy them across to the ROCK’s attached drive. Ah. I’ve not tried it yet, but, apparently, with build 175, you can attach a USB optical drive to ROCK and have it rip CDs automatically. I get what you’re saying though. I prefer to use dBpoweramp for …

Yeah, I’m a long-time user of dBpoweramp (and before that EAC) and do my ripping/tagging on the PC which also hosts one of a number of mirrors of the music collection. It’s a workflow I’ve had for a long time and seems to work well.

You can see the storage on the NuC via SMB on the network so you can copy files across no problem. You can mount it as a network drive in windows if you wan to, but I just type in \\rock and then navigate through the folders to the music.

[image] Henry_McLeod: So fixing would not necessarily bring you or users with your needs back into the fold. Perhaps. Moreover, the tendency to add new non-disconnected features to ROCK does not suit me at all because I chose ROCK as an absolutely minimalist system designed for only one thing…

Changing the system disk, I change the OS. And the OS affects the search speed in my setup as it turned out.

[image] anon44636269: Do you buy an iPhone Although my iPhone SE is already three years old, but it still works fast enough even though I constantly update the OS. Therefore, I have no reason to climb under his hood and change something :wink: .

FWIW I am running Roon Server on a linux server without GUI. This is purely because for some reason I cannot get the latest ROCK installer to work, it’s not installing grub.

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