Assistance needed: Roon core on Linux Ubuntu Studio

[ericuco]

For the last several weeks, Roon keeps constantly scanning my music files stored on a Synology NAS - blue spinning circle in the top right menu section of Roon just continuously spins.

 

Roon core resides on my Ubuntu Studio (20.04) server.

 

I posted something on the Roon forum and was directed to this fix which directs me to this update page.  I tried to update kernel to 5.6.10 but I seem to be stuck on 5.4.0-53-lowlatency. 
 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[ronfint]

If you are connecting to your Synology DiskStation via CIFS, you might try an NFS share instead. I also had severe problems with Roon Build 667, and switching to NFS solved them for me.

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-loses-connection-to-my-synology-nas-since-updating-to-build-667/124926/50

 

Good luck!

[ericuco]

1 hour ago, ronfint said:

If you are connecting to your Synology DiskStation via CIFS, you might try an NFS share instead. I also had severe problems with Roon Build 667, and switching to NFS solved them for me.

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-loses-connection-to-my-synology-nas-since-updating-to-build-667/124926/50

 

Good luck!

Thanks!

 

It took several tries but got NAS mounted as NFS and Roon pointed to it. Hopefully this solves the issue. Fingers crossed.

 

Edit: Roon finished importing all my file and now NO spinning blue circle!!!

[ronfint]

Good to hear. I’m glad this worked for you. 

[ericuco]

One change is that I had to add a line to /etc/fstab file so that my Synology NAS would mount upon boot up, otherwise I had to issue the "mount" command on every restart.

 

Here is the line I added:

 

192.168.0.XX:/volume1/Music_Folder /mnt nfs defaults 0 0 (where XX=NAS IP address)