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The SMB command can be confusing. Try it this way.

Get Finder on your screen

Select Go from the Menu Bar
Towards the bottom select Connect to Server
In the box that pops up enter You should have a screen asking for a password, you should probably just hit the "Connect" button.

You will now have your MC200 showing with the file folders.

Now go to Roon and it should find your Directories. (I dropped Roon so I can't still walk you thru those steps.)

Just for completeness ... where the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx represents the IP address of your MC200.

Iirc make sure you dont put smb in the uri when adding to Roon prefs.

I have not turned off the MC200 core nor set it as an audio endpoint.

My understanding is that I could use Roon on my iMac without disabling the MC200 core.

My goal is simply to try the Roon interface with my MC200 library and see if it offers a "better" experience than the sooloss UI.

I was not able to turn my MC200 Core off since I have no PC (only Mac) to run Core Control. As you note the only output was from my laptop. I did not care for the UI in my limited trial and asked them to cancel my subscription.

I can see where many here will use all of Roons features but that isn't they way I want to find and queue by music.

I did the whole smb link with my MC600 and with Tidal. The Tidal integration is leaps and bounds better than Sooloos.

I can see how someone who is very aware of their collection, might find the Roon interface too much. I don't think I have ever read liner notes or and extras for my CD's. For entertainment purposes it's excellent and for significant others who rattle on all the time that it's all just too complex to use. I like it, especially for a first pass.

I suspect it will be huge for home integrators and home automation installers. It's that must better than iTunes integration, given its not platform specific.

Thanks to everyone for their guidance. Unfortunately I must be omitting something or overlooking a step as I am still unable to access my MC200 library.

I've tried the following with no success:

"smb://xxx.xxx.x.x"

"SMB://xxx.xxx.x.x"

"smb://xxx.xxx.x.x/Music/Music2"

Any suggestions? I'm 4 days into my Roon trial and anxious to see the "magic". My iTunes library (10 CD's) is being watched by Roon so it seems the download/install is ok.

Dont put in SMB, just the IP address and i think the path.

Hi Matsaly

Can you try this please, replace smb with cifs.

cifs://

Cheers

Russ

I'm feeling quite daft at the moment. I've tried the smb & cifs route to no avail.

I'm positive it's user error on my end. Here's my workflow:

I go into Mac finder and "connect to server", then I enter the smb/cifs route which seems to connect to the MC200.

Then I open "Roon" but it still doesn't seem to access the MC200 library.

(I recall that when I first installed Roon it automatically detected my iTunes library)

Is there some additional step in Roon that I must perform in order to access the MC200?

Yes, you have pm

Russ

So you are not adding the network drive from within Roon setup?

You need to add the MC200 network share from within Roon.