Running Roon Server on a couple of Mac Mini’s.
It has been working fine for the past year. This week, on Mac mini crashed and I had to reformat the HDD and start over.
Headed over to the Roon Downloads page and Roon Server is missing.
Googled for about an hour and can’t find a single match to “Roon Server software missing”
Looks like Roon is rolling out some kind of update? Could the software be missing on purpose?
Cheers
@Chris_Peabody, Roon Server has been combined with the Roon GUI for download purposes, but now installs separately and can be managed as separate applications on your Mac or Windows computer:
Build 1353 was released four days ago:
When will I get Build 1353 for my mac mini.I have a lifetime sub for six years.
Weird. It just showed up.
Hello,
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Just so I’m clear, Roon Server is now located in the original Roon software and somewhere along the lines during installation, I can pick Roon Server vs Roon?
Cheers!
That is correct. If it is installed on your Roon Server (what used to be named the Core), then it installs automatically along with the GUI if you use Windows or Macintosh. You select the Roon app to run the GUI and the Roon Server to start the server.
If we are already running roon on a mac (say) as just a control, should we redownload to just install that element, or has the update realised its just a control point?
I don’t have two apps in my app folder for mac, which I what I am assuming if you want server and controler?
I think the Roon update will install both. Then you can shut down the Roon Server and leave it down if you don’t need it. Or, you can tell the Roon server to open on boot up of your device. If you choose to not start on boot up, you can start it manually when/if you want to.
The GUI portion is simply start and shut down Roon as before. It’s pretty slick actually.
I don’t see any evidence of a server running or a server app, hence my question?
I am referring to Mac. There was an update. In activity monitor (task manager) there is only one roon instance.
Hence why I am asking do I need to redownload roon, as the update does not appear to have split out roon on mac.
Well As an experiment I deleted on my PC and downloaded and installed again. I don’t see any difference, in task manager there is still raat server instance and roon app instance. They are wrapped in the same app icon.
I don’t see any way to not have a server running, perhaps I have misunderstood what this update was about. My hope was it would be nippier as I just want to as control for the server.
Would be great if the option to turn off server was there.
