Roon Server cannot locate music folder on VOL 2 (ref#5I2BT9)

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· Hi, I have successfully installed Container Station and Roon Server on VOL 1 SSD. My phone and iPad find Roon but it has no music and my music folder on VOL 2 isn’t found. This is the current pathway - what should I edit to enable to music folder on Vol 2? The folder is not under any other folder and is just called MUSIC.

- TZ=Australia/Sydney
volumes:
- /share/Container/roon:/Roon
- /share/Music:/Music
- /share/Container/roon-backups:/RoonBackups

Thank you.

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· No - NAS is hard wired to router

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Hey @David_Small2,

Thanks for writing in! From a fresh Roon Server diagnostic report, we can see what’s happening. Inside the container, /Music isn’t mounted to your NAS at all; it’s come up as a 16 MB temporary RAM disk, which is what Container Station does when the host path in the compose file doesn’t exist. Your /Roon and /RoonBackups mappings are attached correctly, so it’s just this one line.

The culprit is the path /share/Music. Linux is case-sensitive, and your folder is named MUSIC, so /share/Music doesn’t exist on the NAS.

To confirm the exact path, enable SSH on the NAS (Control Panel → Telnet/SSH), connect, and run:

ls -la /share/ | grep -i music

You’ll see either MUSIC directly, or a symlink like MUSIC -> CACHEDEV2_DATA/MUSIC. Use whichever full path that shows, for a share on Volume 2 it’s usually /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/MUSIC.

Then update your compose to:

volumes:
  - /share/Container/roon:/Roon
  - /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/MUSIC:/Music
  - /share/Container/roon-backups:/RoonBackups

(substituting the path you confirmed above)

Note that Container Station can’t change volume mappings on a running container, you’ll need to stop and remove the existing one and re-create it from the edited compose file. Your database lives in /share/Container/roon, so nothing is lost.

Once it’s back up, go to Settings → Storage in Roon. The existing “Music Folder” entry pointing at /Music should come online and start importing on its own. If it doesn’t, remove it and re-add /Music.

We’ll be monitoring for your reply, thank you!

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Hi Benjamin,

Thank you for your help! I was able to complete all this up to (Control Panel → Telnet/SSH), connect and run. I can access Control Panel Telenet/SSH but I’m not sure how I connect or type the ls -la etc command in…sorry, I’m a music guy, not so much IT. I tried CACHEDEV2_DATA/MUSIC:/Music but Roon still says I have no music loaded. I’m sure it will be solved once I understand the connect, and run ls -la etc command. Your help is greatly appreciated.

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Please try /share/MUSIC:/Music instead.

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Brilliant, thank you! That worked. All the best David

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For the record, /CACHEDEV#_DATA is a mount for /share , which is a symbolic link. If your music is on a different volume the NAS handles this, so using /share is preferable. # is one of many volumes.