I’ve just acquired a Uniti Star and a new Roon Nucleus One server; both have a wired connection to my home network. I’ve easily copied all my music files from PC to the Nucleus internal SSD and can use the Roon app to play these files via the Uniti Star (but not via the Naim app). However, when I tried to rip my first CD to the Roon Nucleus, the Naim app told me I need to adjust some settings first, but neither the Configure music store nor View local drives buttons can find my Roon Nucleus. So how can I configure a connection to allow cd ripping onto the Roon Nucleus SSD?
You can’t. The Star can only rip to locally attached storage.
You need to configure roon so it includes the star drive in its library. Then roon can see whatever you’ve ripped on the star.
I was under the impression that a drive attached to the Star was not visible to other devices on your network, in which case you would need to copy it to a different storage device (or directly to the Nucleus) for use with Roon.
Perhaps this has changed with later Star firmware versions?
Can you advise exactly how to do this? I’ve always had trouble adding network shares in Roon.
Can you advise exactly how to do this?
Although this is drifting away from the original question, the answer is that you need to enable Server mode on the Star, and then the music library on its locally attached storage will be visible over the network (as a UPnP device).
My understanding of Roon is it will rip but not tag, it will keep track of the disk within Roon but if you ever leave Roon all bets are off. Happy to be told otherwise!
Are you sure? Roon does not use UPnP and will not discover UPnP servers on the network. In order to give Roon access to a music library on your network the usual procedure is to set up the relevant music library as a watched music folder in Roon settings.
I believe Roon has an export feature that will include the tags with any music files, although I’ve never tried it.
When in server mode, the Star also advertises its music store as SMB shares (a writable one for the Downloads, and a read-only one for the rips). So you should be able to access those shares from Roon, I guess. However, you might miss out on the metadata that the Star stores in a separate file for each ripped album.
You may be right; I recall some early Star users complaining that the rip files were not accessible while the USB drive was mounted on it, but perhaps that’s changed.
I’d be a bit surprised if the music files were visible and the metadata wasn’t, but who knows? Not necessarily a problem with Roon as it uses its own metadata by default.
If he was eventually successful ripping to Roon, would it be necessary to rip in flac vs wav in order
to see file artwork?
Star rips are stilted in the same way as Core rips, so metadata is integral in flac but stored in a separate file per album with Wav rips.
I believe it’s still the case that the Star music store (normally a usb drive or SD card I think?) is not available to a PC looking for it on the network, so that modifying anything involves unmounting the drive and connecting it to a PC. This is different from Core, so again I’m not certain.
Thanks for all your input. I successfully ripped a CD to a flash drive inserted into the front USB port on the Star but it had to format the drive first. This made me relieved that I didn’t find a way to import onto the SSD in my Roon Nucleus as this would have been a disaster! I ripped in FLAC format and all metadata and album art was integral to the file. I plugged the drive into my PC and could see the file in Windows Explorer and could play it in Media player.
In the future I will stick with the system I have been using i.e. ripping the cd into my PC Music folder using a CD ripper program which can rip into FLAC at 48kHz/16 bit. Then copying into the Roon SSD can easily done by drag and drop.
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I’m not sure it would have been a disaster so much as an inconvenience having to remove the USB drive and connect it to a computer every rime you want to add a new rip to a different drive. I guess it would depend on how often you rip CDs as to how inconvenient you find it.
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