I suppose “real time” is relative, but it’s definitely not real time enough IMHO. Honestly no idea if it ever updates? I suspect it is because my music is stored on a NAS and Roon (running on Linux on a NUC) sees it over NFS. I’ve done things like check /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches, etc and still doesn’t work. Per this thread it sounds like the official Roon response is “sorry, not our fault”: Roon is not watching for new files in real time
Other than manually kicking of a re-scan every time I add music, is there some way to get Roon to scan automatically on a pre-defined schedule (like a cron job?).
In order to initiate a scan, Roon has to be told by the OS of the NAS that a change has been made. Is there any setting in the NAS software that can make that happen more frequently?
@Henry_McLeod: In theory I could run an inotify watcher on the NAS but I have no idea if Roon or my version of Ubuntu supports that. For now a cron job would at least get me out of the manual clicking button business. Frankly, it’s not worth it right now if I could just rescan every 15min.
@Carl: Under Settings -> Storage, I can Edit the folder where my music is stored, but there is no “Automatic Rescan Interval” option. I’m running Roon 1.7 build 610.
As you mentioned NFS I was assuming the Roon Core is not on the NAS and is accessing the files via a network share.
If the Roon Core and files are on the NAS then Roon should be using a local path to the files directly not a network share and hence the option for automatic rescan [of network share] is not listed.
Could you confirm what your NAS is and also what device the Roon Core is running on.
Also can your post a screen shot of how the storage is setup in Roon.
EDIT
Just re-read your post (Core is on Linux on NUC) but would it may help to know the OS and NUC version) and the NAS of course.
I see the same as your screenshot for local folders. It is possible that the Schedule option is limited to network folders. What does your NAS Storage edit options screen show ?
Oh, I had already mounted my music onto my Linux box. I’m not relying on Roon to mount the volume. I guess that explains it? Still, probably a tweak to allow in the UI maybe?
Edit: Okay, am I missing something? Looks like Network Share option is for SMB only? I tried clicking on “Help” but it’s a broken link.
That will be it… and why I asked you to screen shot the Roon storage settings.
From Roon’s PoV it’s a local drive… the OS is masking that’s it really a network share.
I would suggest pointing Roon at the share and testing how well the “real time” folder watching works.
I don’t run Windows? I don’t want to deal with securing it properly? NAS are historically limited machines and I don’t want to run the extra process which eats CPU/Memory? The NAS runs Linux so NFS is better supported?
I have Roon server installed on Synology NAS and in the past when I added new music, it was immediately imported in Roon and now I don’t know what’s happen but this doesn’t work anymore. I even tried to completely reinstall Roon server and reimport all music again but nothing. Watching for a new files simply does not work anymore. I need to “force rescan” every time I add new music
It seems that “watching for a new files” on Synology NAS works again !
Yesterday I installed new DSM update and now I imported two albums and they were immediately recognized