· Roon is slow, freezing or won’t start
· Roon won’t start up at all
· I have installed Roon on MacBook Air. I use it as my server to play music via MacBoo. By the start up appears" Waiting for your Roon Server..." and Roon does not start.
· I use Wifi router FRITZ!Box 7530JW.
Hello @Petr_Lukes ,
Thanks for reaching out to our support.
It looks like RoonServer is not running on your Mac.
Please execute the following command in terminal to start it :
ROON_APP="$(find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)"; [ -z "$ROON_APP" ] && ROON_APP="$(find /System /Users /Volumes /Applications -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)"; [ -n "$ROON_APP" ] && open "$ROON_APP/Contents/RoonServer.app" || echo "Roon.app not found"Let us know please if that has helped.
Thanks.
Solved. Many Thanks!!!
Hi, unfortunately after restart of my MAC the same problem appears. Can you help me please?
· Roon is slow, freezing or won’t start
· Roon won’t start up at all
· I submitted topic yesterday, that I can not start Roon on MAC Book. I use it as my server too. By starting Roon, the following message appears: "Waiting for your Roon Server..." You replied to my topic and provided following command for Terminal.
The command is as follows:
ROON_APP="$(find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)"; [ -z "$ROON_APP" ] && ROON_APP="$(find /System /Users /Volumes /Applications -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)"; [ -n "$ROON_APP" ] && open "$ROON_APP/Contents/RoonServer.app" || echo "Roon.app not found"
I executed this command in Terminal and it help- Roon started and I could play music. But the next day, after MAC Book restart the same problem appears. Can you advise me please to fix it permanently?
· I use Wifi router FRITZ!Box 7530JW.
we are sorry to see it does not launch Roon Server automatically.
To solve this please execute this command once in Terminal:
cat < ~/Desktop/Launch_Roon_Script.scpt
-- Search for the Roon application path
set roonApp to do shell script "find /Applications -maxdepth 2 -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1"
if roonApp is "" then
set roonApp to do shell script "find /System /Users /Volumes /Applications -type d -name 'Roon.app' 2>/dev/null | head -n 1"
end if
if roonApp is not "" then
-- Define path to the internal RoonServer
set serverPath to roonApp & "/Contents/RoonServer.app"
-- Check if RoonServer process is already running
set serverCount to (do shell script "ps aux | grep -i 'RoonServer' | grep -v grep | wc -l") as integer
-- Start RoonServer only if it is not currently running
if serverCount is 0 then
do shell script "open " & quoted form of serverPath
end if
-- Launch the main Roon GUI
do shell script "open " & quoted form of roonApp
else
-- Error handling if app is missing
display dialog "Error: Roon.app not found in standard directories." buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
end if
EOF
# Compile the AppleScript into a native macOS Application (.app)
osacompile -o ~/Desktop/"Launch Roon.app" ~/Desktop/Launch_Roon_Script.scpt
# Clean up the temporary script file
rm ~/Desktop/Launch_Roon_Script.scpt
echo "Success! 'Launch Roon' application created on your Desktop."It will create a new app icon on your Desktop which will launch both, Roon and Roon Server and solve your problem.
You can drag it to dock and start Roon with it.
Let us know please if that’s working for you.
Unfortunately the command did not create any icon on desktop.
Thanks for confirming.
Probably that’s because of a non standard app path.
Then you can do it manually.
Please open the folder of the Roon app (like on screenshot)
and start Roon Server manually after launching Roon or create an alias and drag it to the desktop
Let us know please if that is working for you.
Thanks.
Hi Alex, thank you for support! I found the icon in the folder. If I understand it correctly, I have to now after each restart launch RoonServer as well- right? OK, I can live with that. But unfortunately synchronization with Tidal does not work. I have blank “What’s” new as well as “Playlists”. See my screenshots.
Hello @Petr_Lukes ,
Thanks for reaching out to us back !
In order to check this problem, can you please bring your Roon Server back online on your macbook so we could pull the diagnostics log from it ?
Also, we would recommend you to try to sign out and sign back to Tidal while waiting for us to review the diagnostics log.
Thanks.
Hi @Petr_Lukes,
Diagnostics have reached out server and we’ve had a chance to inspect logs. Thank you for your patience.
Here’s what we’ve found:
Roon is trying to safely write to its database, but the final step (renaming a temp file into place) is failing because the target path isn’t available. It’s a repeating atomic file move error. This most commonly arises from a disconnected or unstable drive/mount, or a damaged database directory.
Have you recently migrated RoonServer between machines, or restored a Time Machine backup on the current machine? Did you install Roon in a specific, custom location on this Mac?
Do you have both Roon and RoonServer added as login items on this Mac? This can cause the GUI to launch without establishing a connection to the server via the loopback. Try just adding RoonServer to the list of login items.
If you have a reliable, recent Backup, you can try a database refresh on this Macbook:
Let’s try a fresh database and see if your issues persist:
We’ll watch for your reply. Thank you!
