Roon Synology USB Drive

Roon Software Discussion QNAP/Synology NAS
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I installed Roon onto a Synology DS220+ following the instructions here:

https://roononnas.org/en/synology-dsm7/

It works fine, mostly.

The trouble is that Roon occasionally loses access to the music library. The music library is on an external Seagate USB drive connected to a USB port on the DS220+.

When Roon loses access the same folder is still able to be accessed by browsing with a File Browser, like Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, but the folder is not available in Roon.

I have attached a few screenshots both when the folder is accessible and when it is not.

Anyone know what could be causing this?

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Do you happen to have more than one external USB drive?

3

Yes, one is plugged into the front USB port the other is plugged into the back USB port of the DS220+.

I thought that it was odd that the folder reads “usbshare”, I thought that it should read “usbshare1”.

4

Yes the problem is that those drives don’t necessarily keep the same names when you reboot. It’s a pain. There is a solution but I don’t recall it. See if you can contact @crieke about it. He has the solution.

5

In Synology DSM go to Control Panel>Shared Folders, select the drive, select edit and the name field will be available to change.

6

Thank you. I tried renaming both of my external USB drives, but it still only shows one drive ‘usbshare’. This is the same as before. The new names don’t show up.

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Are you rebooting your NAS often for some reason?

8

No, I almost never reboot the NAS.