I wonder if anyone can offer advice on how i point my Atom at my NUC with Roon Rock on it to access my local stored music on an SSD. Its accessible within Roon by selecting storage location in focus, and when i has Innuos Sense i could put in the file path to access it (Rock/data/storage/internal storage/music).
Ticking the server button in the naim app doesn’t see the NUC as local server and it would be nice to be able to play my music from the naim app if i moved away from roon.
You’d need to have upnp server software on the NUC. That is what the Naim sees, rather than the hardware. I’m not sure if Asset can be used, though I believe Minim can.
Enabling server mode in the Naim app simply turns on the built in UPnP server the Atom runs so that other streamers on your home network can access it. Only music files on a USB drive attached to the Atom can be used in this way. Other networked storage and servers are not accessed in this way, although any UPnP server on your home network should appear in the Naim app automatically.
A NUC can of course run a UPnP server instead of Roon if you want it to.
thanks, in that case ill stick with roon at the moment then
Not with an SSD. You would have to get another SSD, copy your music files onto it, then plug it directly into your Atom. Obviously, this is not a good solution.
On the other hand, you could replace the SSD with a NAS for music file storage, and then run a UPnP server service on the NAS. For example, Asset UPnP Audio Server.
Roon would work as before, and the Atom could also access your music files via the UPnP service.
I’m just wondering though - Since you already have the Roon setup, and the Atom is Roon Ready, why bother with directly browsing and selecting music files from the Atom (with or without the Naim app)? The Roon UI is nicer and more powerful (not that there’s anything wrong with the Naim app, but since you have Roon…)
I have the ROCK NUC and NAS + Asset set up that I described above (with a Roonified NDS instead of an Atom). Even though I still have Asset running on my NAS, since setting up Roon, I hardly ever browse and play music via the NDS or Naim app.
thanks for the detailed response, i was asking just in case i move away from roon and rely on the naim app. But its unlikely currently so was just an idle thought as i could access local music through innuos sense on the same nuc so wondered if i could do the same with naim. no worries tho!
There’s no reason why you couldn’t run a UPnP server on the NUC you also use for Roon. Much as I like what Roon does, I do find that it doesn’t sound quite as good.
Putting your library on a USB drive and attaching it directly to the Atom is another possibility. Sound quality is good but you may find the browsing experience a bit limited if your library is large. No harm in trying though - presumably you have a backup copy of your music you could use.
yeah i have it backed on two usb drives hdd based tho but worth trying
HDD is fine. The disadvantage of using the Atom USB input is that it takes a little while to index the files, like any server, and if you remove the drive, say to add more files or edit them, it often needs to re-index them. Still, it’s easy to try if you already have the drive.
Be sure to look in the Server input under Local Music. You’ll also see the music in the USB input but you just get a basic folder view.
With Roon Rock you can’t install any additional software on the NUC as Roon Rock turns the NUC into an appliance over which you have little control.
All you have is a system status page that lets you reinstall the software, stop and start Roon and change some network settings. Everything else is controlled through the Roon user interface.
To install anything else on the NUC would require the OP to wipe the NUC clean and install an operating system (Windows or Linux) and then install Roon Server. Once done they could add other software, like Asset and any other media servers. It’s more flexible but the ‘hands-off’ approach of Roon Rock is very appealing and also very reliable.
yeah i wont be doing that!
Great tip, thank you!
Yes, if there’s no regular OS on the NUC it can’t run a UPnP server as well. Alternatively run the UPnP server on a different device on your network if you have one. Any PC, Mac or NAS would do. UPnP media servers were designed to play material from any network location, not just local storage.