Nucleus User Guide
How to Install a Hard Drive in Nucleus One
To install a hard drive in your Nucleus One, please follow these steps: Unscrew the bottom lid of the unit. Place the hard drive into the HDD rails, ensuring that its ports align with the SATA cable connector. Align the drive’s screw holes with the ...
Do I have Nucleus Rev A or Nucleus Rev B?
What are the different versions of Nucleus? There are four iterations of Nucleus, two of which we refer to as the revisions of Nucleus, or “Rev A” and “Rev B” for short. These are not separate generations of Nucleus – in fact, most of the internals ...
Connecting to Nucleus
Find the Nucleus on your network To find the Nucleus on the network, install the free Roon app on any Mac or Windows PC (available here) or the Roon app for mobile devices and tablets (available from the App Store and Play Store, respectively). After ...
Formatting Nucleus Internal Storage
To start, let's connect to the Nucleus Web Administration Interface. Next, confirm that your drive is shown. If an HDD or SSD is attached to the Nucleus's internal SATA connector, you will see the "Internal Music Storage" section in the Web ...
Installing Nucleus Internal Storage
These step-by-step instructions will walk you through the process of installing an HDD or SSD for internal storage in Nucleus. Step 1: Make sure you have everything 2.5" HDD or SSD with a drive height of 7mm or 9mm for Nucleus Rev A and up to 15mm ...
Nucleus Internal Storage
Your Nucleus supports an internal 2.5" HDD or SSD to create a self-contained music server. For a completely silent system, we recommend using an SSD. If you chose to use an SSD here, the system will stay fully silent. The entire internal storage ...
Nucleus Manual
Introduction What is Nucleus? At the heart of every Roon system is a Roon Server. This is the brain behind the entire Roon experience – it manages your music collection, streams to your audio devices, and stores the Roon database. The Roon team ...
Nucleus Media Storage And Audio Devices
Storage Devices Roon can watch multiple storage locations for files at the same time. That means you can simultaneously use any (or all) of the following storage locations: Devices connected directly to Nucleus by USB If your music is stored on an ...
Nucleus Migration Guide (Nucleus/Nucleus+ Rev A | Nucleus/Nucleus+ Rev B | Nucleus One | Nucleus Titan)
If you're setting up a new Nucleus (all models), and your Roon Server had previously been running on another Nucleus, Mac, Windows, or Linux Roon Server, you'll need to migrate your Roon database. Your database includes your playlists, edits, play ...
Nucleus Web Administration Interface
Connecting to the Web Administration Interface You can use a web browser to perform operations like configuring settings, updating firmware, formatting internal storage, and resetting to factory settings. To use Roon to help you load up the Nucleus ...
Power Up Nucleus
Follow these steps to connect and start your Nucleus: Before connecting power, connect one end of an Ethernet cable (not included) to the LAN port on the back panel of the Nucleus. Connect the other end to your ethernet router or switch. Next, ...
Roon OS CDROM
Overview Starting with RoonOS Build 175, CD audio extraction support is included: Roon OS will "rip" CDs. Further stability improvements of this feature have been recently released with RoonOS (Operating System) Build 254. You can verify which ...
Updating Nucleus
Once your Nucleus has been powered on you’ll want to make sure that it is completely up-to-date before moving forward. The following steps will walk you through updating your Nucleus firmware and RoonServer software. Updating Nucleus Firmware When ...
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Roon Server on NAS
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MUSE - Precision Audio Control: Sample Rate Conversion
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Starting with Roon Server
What is Roon Server? Roon Server is media server software that runs on a powerful computer, NAS, or turnkey appliance (like Nucleus or ROCK), located on the network within your home. (For more information on how it fits in with Control and Output ...