Migrating Roon from Innuos

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Hello, brand new owner and member to the Antipodes community here. I’m coming from an Innuos Zenith Mk3 and couldn’t find any other posts here going into the specifics of moving from a previous Roon setup. I set up an empty core on my new K21 but quickly realized that I wasn’t going to have any of my listening history that way. So I tried restoring from a backup from my Zenith. This seemed to do the trick but I had a bit of strange behavior with my library that eventually required me to run some of the library cleanup options and rebuild my local library from scratch. it also changed the name of my core back to what it was instead of the host name for my K21.

My question is, is this a valid way to do things or should I have just started from scratch? I’m just not sure how sandboxed Roon is with the Antipodes and whether it is worthwhile going through all this trouble just to get my history if it introduces a lot of cruft into what should be a clean database. Also, is there any easy way to reset Roon through the Antipodes interface to an empty database if I want to just start from scratch again?

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Yes it is a valid way to migrate from one Roon to another.
If all the music library that was on the Innuos is transferred to the Antipodes, prior to installing the backup, then the library cleanup shouldnt be such of an issue.
Once the backup is installed you can change the name back to Antipodes inside of Roon.

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I moved from exactly that Innuous device to an Antipodes K30. With your own music, Roon expects the files to be in the same location after restoring from backup. It stored a reference to the files and that reference becomes invalid if Roon can no longer find them.

After a few unsuccessful attempts, I opted to start over from scratch. I concluded that I plan to be on Antipodes for a very long time so I should just set things up the right way from the start. No regrets as my library performed better after doing this. Just note that if you opt to do this, Roon will re-analyze your music so make so you throttle it so sound quality isn’t impacted.

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