Netgear Nighthawk RAXE300 Nucleus is connected to Mac Mini m2 via ethernet.
Connected Audio Devices
Mac Mini m2 connected via ethernet, Dell USB DVD drive, Phile Audio ripping software
Number of Tracks in Library
Currently, I’m just trying to import a ripped CD with no luck.
Description of Issue
I am brand new to Roon, so I my be doing this incorrectly, but I cannot seem to get my Roon nucleus to recognize and of the CD’s I try to rip. I first tried ripping directly to the hard drive installed on the Nucleus. I was able to find the files, but Roon did not recognize them. I also tried ripping the files to my Mac and dragging and dropping the files to the Nucleus. That didn’t work either. I am using Phile Audio as my ripping software (which is also brand new to me) and saving the files as FLAC. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Welcome to the forum. It’s better to rip to the Mac and then copy the whole album to the internal storage of the Nucleus. If you let the ripper save them there during ripping, it takes considerable time and the files appear one by one, which can confuse Roon and lead to misidentified albums.
When ripping to the Mac and dragging and dropping the files to the Nucleus, where exactly are you dropping the files? Like this?
I’ll give that a shot. So far, I’ve tried dragging the files to my network share in Finder. I also tried dragging the files directly to the Roon remote.
That should work too, it’s essentially the same as the SMB method above. Drag and drop to the Roon remote should work as well but I am not sure if that creates orderly folders, probably not.
You wrote that you can see the files on the share but not in Roon. Does your Nucleus have the shared folder correctly configured?
Did you add \\Nucleus\Data\Music\Flac yourself? You don’t need that, the Nucleus adds its internal storage automatically, and it’s the first entry in your screenshot. Like it says on the instruction page I linked above:
And it’s also incorrect (apart from not needing it at all) because the path to the internal storage on the Nucleus is
//NUCLEUS/Data/Storage/InternalStorage
No it’s not. It should output a folder named like the album with FLAC files inside (or whatever you configured it to rip to, but FLAC would be recommended).
I have no idea why any ripper would output Unix executable files, and the App Store page for Phile Audio says:
“Phile Audio will encode to all of the most popular audio file formats: MP3, MP4-AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WAV and AIFF. You can specify one or more encoding formats before ripping, so you only have to rip once.”
I found nothing on Google about executable files, something seems wrong.
As far as I can tell, Phile does not check the rips against the AccurateRip online database for correctness, and I would very much recommend to use a ripper that does, like dBPoweramp or XLD.
Hi @Vince_Caracci I have had similar problems copying files to my window core from my iMac. Macs can be a little “quirky” when trying to copy files to network shares/servers.
What works for me is, from finder use control-k to connect to server then browse to the destination & save. You may also need to login as guest to complete the connection.
I have some files copying over now (see below). Does this look like it’s working correctly? How long does a typical album take to copy over to the Nucleus?
I got rid of the extra share and am trying dBpoweramp instead. It did rip individual files and it looks like they are trying to transfer to the Nucleus, buy it’s taking forever.
The screenshot looks fine. The time it takes for copying depends on your network speed. A CD rip in flac has typically 200-300 MB depending on play time of the CD. If everything is connected by Ethernet it should take a few seconds, by wifi it depends as wifi speeds can differ a lot. 30 seconds to a few minutes, depending
I said a few seconds to a few minutes for one album. You are copying 12464 tracks. With a CD having 10-20 tracks usually, multiply that by ~1000 for 12000 tracks
