Im trying to get the Roon CD Ripper extension but struggling to find the optical drive on my Unraid host machine where the Roon-Server docker is running well. (the roon extension manger is on a Unriad hosted VM (same host))

 

My research has indicated i need to use the --device docker run option in the Extra Parameters section of the Unraid roon-server docker configuration. So virtually connecting the drive to the Roon Server direct.

 

The options I tried that take and still let the roon-server docker run are:

--device '/dev/sr0':'/dev/dvd':'r'

--device '/dev/sr0':'/dev/cdrom':'r'

--device /dev/sr0

--device /dev/sr0 --device /dev/sg3

--device /dev/sr0 --device /dev/cdrom

you will get the jist, i have tried a few others that fail too.

 

The CD Ripper extension stalls at the setup stage of configuring the drive asking for a CD to be inserted.

 

ever hopeful for some ideas and direction.

 

You can go directly to the correct support thread for your docker by clicking on its icon in your Unraid webUI and selecting Support

9 minutes ago, trurl said:

You can go directly to the correct support thread for your docker by clicking on its icon in your Unraid webUI and selecting Support

thank you for the tip. I have previously done this and went through the whole thing, no-one has touched this topic so far.  I will reply on that thread with a link to this post.

I’d like to suggest using different software for ripping. Exact Audio Copy has been the gold standard for ripping audio for years and years. 
 

here are resources for that route:

https://www.exactaudiocopy.de
https://eacguide.github.io/

thank you @rutherford i have been backing up my CDs with other means for years. now im bought into Roon i want to rip direct into the Roon collection/db which its CD ripper tool will do just fine, thats if my Unraid capability permits it.

I like it! Roon software is awesome. But, and I’m talking without real knowledge here, the CD ripping aspect of Roon isn't what it’s famous for.

another piece of software is dbpoweramp that does an outstanding job of batch processing. 
 

Roon is best for exactly what I think we all use it for: music experience in our daily listening. Metadata pics suggestions 

whats the problem with the Roon CD Ripping extension? do you have experience of it or followed threads on it, i thought id give it a drive and find for myself, but glad to hear reviews. (dbpoweramp is what im replacing)

Yeah, I’m not that helpful here! Sorry. Only that I DO have lots of ripping experience and it was 100% in EAC. So, if I were you, I would spend about 5 minutes on Roon ripping before bailing for something else. Once it’s ripped: done! Back to Roon happy land. 

thank you @rutherford i am listening.  My worry is once i get roon ripping running the music lookup goes south with some of the odd listening tastes i have and i go back to manual apps... (but anyhow i learnt more about docker on the journey so far, with roon playing in the background) so i tend to think you are onto something.

Look up going south? Keeping track of metadata and stats? This is Roon bread and butter. I suggest a test: get the weirdest album you have. Rip it, using standard naming stuff, and see if Roon will recognize it. Once you have the FLACs, you should be good to go. 

sorry going south in my background means not going well. yeah we are aligned on the potential (and probably likely) flaw.