Using Roon in Australia

[oneofmany]

Hi @David_CLIFF

I am another Aussie user, started out using an 2009 MacPro as my RoonServer in 2017. I quickly realised that I did not want this running constantly and letting it go to sleep always made things a little less stable.

I then successfully installed ROCK on a repurposed HTPC/Gaming PC in a HDPLEX case, fondly known as a MOCK, this has been running ever since but is not officially supported by Roon so if I have problems its tough luck!

MOCK - Tell us what strange gear you've installed ROCK on!

Here’s the guts of my MOCK in the HDPLEX H5. I’m working on tidying the cables/wires up, its starting to get there. [IMG_0735]

MOCK - Tell us what strange gear you've installed ROCK on!

ROCK installed on an ASUS ROG STRIX H270I motherboard with an Intel Core i7 7700, Samsung 960 EVO 250GB M.2 SSD and 8 GB Corsair Vengeance Ram and a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD. [IMG_0403] Seems to be running beautifully, took most of the day to get everything running properly. Restored from my backup twice as somehow a lot of my metadata grooming disappeared. Even on the second attempt it was the same. PITA. Quite a few album merges had split and one album was showing as another artist entirely …

I also have a NUC10i3 running ROCK, one server runs early access the other runs the production version.

Personally I’d go down the NUC installed with ROCK path and then purchase a Nucleus One if you so desire. No issues worrying about OS updates to MacOS or Windows, just set, forget and access to your music all of the time (baring mishaps or unforeseen events).