I have just ordered an RS250, I currently have a NAS with 11,000 CDs on it and buy CDs weekly. Is it really going to take days to index them and the same every time I add a CD? This will make it unusable and I have around 5TB of files so can’t even use an internal SSD
You need Roon Core running on an windows/apple/nas/nucleus device, works like a charm 
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I bought it as I wanted to stop using Roon as the price is going up in January.
None of the reviews mentioned this major flaw in its design
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Wich review says that it is a better mediaserver than Roon? Roon is best mediaserver system, Hifi Rose is great Roon Endpoint.
Roon price will be raised by 2 bucks a month?
Hifi Rose in their marketing mention using it with NAS’s with their native apps when this clearly isn’t a solution.
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Some points:
- I’ve put a 8 TB SSD in the RS250 and this is working properly
- Yes, it takes many hours (at the moment there are about 5 TB files on the SSD) for indexing, which must done every time, you change your files
- transfering some TB files to the internal SSD will take some days and is not practical → you"ve to fill the SSD outside of the RS250.
- you can use your NAS with the RS250 in mapping through SMB V1 (unsecure and very slow)
- I don’t like the internal music player in the Rose and if you’ll have a lot of files, then it’s hard to find your music.
- primarily I’m using Roon (the RS250 can’t act as DLNA client, but only as renderer without openhome integrated → not gapless) and as a Roon endpoint the RS250 is nearly perfect.
So, if you don’t want to use Roon, then I would prefer another streamer, which can act at least as DLNA client or as client for LMS.
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Ok so it looks like I might have to stick with Roon.
Why isn’t it a solution? I am using my 150B with a Synology NAS with 16000 CD ripped. Works great with Roses native app on an iPad (sounds even better than using Roon).
If I buy CD’s every week and it has to index the whole library then this is what means that it isn’t a solution
You don’t have to do a full rescan of the media library. I added 4 ripped CD’s this week and didn’t do a rescan. The CD’s turned up automaticly in Roses native app just as it does in Roon.
I am guessing that’s if you rip to internal storage rather than ripping to a NAS?
No, I don’t have any internal storage in my 150B. I am ripping to my NAS.
Ok thank you, mine is being delivered between 11:14 and 12:14 today, why are delivery companies so precise? I look forward to trying it out.
Many thanks to all the responders
As an additional point:
If you mount only the NAS directories (I’ve done this only for my videos) and don’t put the files into an internal or external disc, than you can’t put the metadata into the database.
This means, that you don’t have the ability to search into your files.
Only navigation through the directories is possible.
Another consideration, unless something has changed, it that any time you reboot the Rose (power outage, firmware update) it forces a rescan of the music library, even if nothing has changed. I consider that rediculous and it is the reason why I no longer connect it to the music on my NAS. Now I just have a few test tracks on the Rose.
I recently signed up for a Roon free trial and will be buying thier lifetime license at $699.99 before the price goes up on Jan. 1. So far, no problem using my Rose 150B as a Roon endpoint and letting Roon do the indexing of my music files.
To clarify my earlier reply, i only play my music via mounted NAS directories. I have arranged my music into genre directories on my NAS. If yoy want your media labriary searchable you need to scan the library as burki says. But that is the only negative i have about Roon that it refuse to show my NAS directories.
agree, I have to say, I thought I would be able to do various other things as well, like play my own YouTube login… This is running linux and yet, we are confined to listening to Rose YouTube… #JustSaying
I have a 150, and I have the same problem.