Roon reinstall-help

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Hey. I have a several year old Sonictransporter i7. It came with Windows not SO. I just installed SO, which makes my set up truly headless. I have had a couple problems, however, and was hoping for some help.

First. when I set up Roon, the storage setting did not see my hard drive that holds my music. I tried the usual solutions: reboot, change USB input, tried another drive, etc. No help. This is weird as I have set up Roon many times on different computers and have never had this issue.

Second, I decided to uninstall and reinstall Roon. When I did so, the install page said that Roon had been installed. I rebooted, but Roon does not show up as an installed app. My remote will not see it either. I repeated a few times and still no luck.

I emailed SGC but it is Labor Day weekend. So, I am not expecting a response for awhile.

Help please.

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Well, apparently, I needed to install drive manager, which I just did. it showed up under installed apps.

Roon Server, however, will not show up. I have reinstalled 5 times now and it will not show up.

Help!!

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Hello,

I can guess only:

  • Have you tried reinstalling SO?
  • Do you have updated to the latest version of SO?
  • Roon core may take a while to boot and appear if the library is big, especially if it needs to create a new library which I guess is the case

Good luck!
NOA

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…make sure that the attached USB drive is formatted in exFAT to avoid read/write issues with SO (Linux).

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Not sure how to reinstall SO??

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Sorry I don’t know, never done this. I thought you would know how to reinstall as you’ve installed it…

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SMG installed SO. Andrew fixed it for me. Thanks for the responses.

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You don’t need to reinstall the OS you just need to reinstall Roon. You can do this from the software manager.

@NOA is correct exFAT is the best drive format for your music files.