I’m looking at getting into Roon and Nucleus, I have a cd ripper from small green computer that works with the nucleus, I will install an internal SSD so I can rip right to the nucleus. I understand from reading that it saves it as rip cd file or something like that and it saves it as a date and the tracks are 1 ,2 ,3 ect. Now when I pull up roon on my tablet, will it show the name of the ripped cd? How will I know the titles of some 500 cds?
The answer is yes - if Roon can identify the CD automatically. If it can’t, you will need to add the metadata manually into Roon’s database.
A word of warning, the combination of the CD ripper function in RoonOS and Roon is not very good at dealing with boxsets - the identification will aften fail.
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Thanks, just read so much on ripping to computer then moving to Roon/Nucleus. Don’t really want to do that, once ripped to SSD Nucleus I not worried about moving files to anything else. Just made me concerned when I read that it saves it as date/time and track 1,2ect. I was like then how do you know what cd it is when you pull it up on the tablet. another question is if I just wanted my ripped cds and not worried about any other streaming service, do I have to have Tidal or Qobuz? when all I want for now is a device to control all my ripped cds
No, but you will miss out on some features of Roon, such as an artist’s full discography, or a list of all available recordings of a composition.
Most users rip to ANO folder,
Ripping directly to the Nucleus using the built in software results in files that Roon can read . Unless it has changed recently the track names etc are held in the db and file names are references not real names so the file names make no sense if moved to another music player
Personally I keep a duplicate on my main PC and sync across to the SSD in my NUC (read Nucleus) that way the albums “make sense”
Tru a few and see before commiting all your 500 CD’s
That’s if you just copy the files and folders to another location. However, if you use Roon’s Export function to recreate the local collection in a new location, Roon will insert basic metadata and rename folders to the album name and tracks to the track titles.
Which is broken if you select too many albums/tracks at a time. I never worked out the limit, but I usually had to break things down into batches of 10k to 20k tracks to prevent the process quitting on me. It’s another thing not fixed in the 5 years of Roon use.
I’d definitely recommend for @Steven_Baldwin to use another ripping software, dBpoweramp would be my first choice.
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I’ve ripped my own collection of about 200 CD’s on my MacBook Pro with connected Apple Super Drive using dbPoweramp ripping software. It correctly identified and tagged about 95% of the albums automatically while ripping. The other 5% I’ve done manually using JRiver Media Center.
The files themselves are placed into separate named folders. And also carry the track’s name and track number. Very easy to identify them.
Stored the music on an externally connected USB hard drive. And from there copied them to both my Roon Server and multimedia drive.
This way I have 3 copies of my own music.
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