Thank you for the response. Not so much interested in the secret sauce in the audio analysis tweak as I am in how it manifests. Is it possible to share this? No big deal if it isnāt, just curious, particularly re: dynamic range determinations.
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Iām guessing completely hereā¦ but if I were asked to speed up audio analysis on local files, analysis takes place after identification I believe.
Iād create my own database of analyses and then do a look up of the database. So when I see a known album, skip the analysis part and just look up the results Iād calculated earlier in my cloud database and plonk them into the local library.
Would speed things up a lot.
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Thank you for your response. What I surmise from this is that I donāt understand what is going on under the hood for Roon Playback of stored or streamed music. Analysis of audio files prior to or nearly simultaneously with playback must be a part of the routine, given the different audio file specifications re: bitrate and resolution and the tweak may (?) involve a method to reduce computational overhead. If everything were RBCD resolution, this might not be a requirement. Thereās obviously a lot going on that we end-users donāt understand and donāt need to as long as the results are an excellent listening experience. Just a curious (and humbled) George.
Love this, it works great and sounds even better 
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Analysis of local files is done prior to playback if you have analysis switched on or simultaneously if you have it switched off. Itās what gives the little waveform underneath, oy done for local files which is why streaming ones donāt have it.
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Thank you ged_hickman1. This is fascinating. I donāt have the same Roon menu you show in your screenshot (Setup RoonArc Profiles Play Actions Libraries), but find something similar in Settings, only vertically displayed. I left this at default settings for Background audio analysis speed, which is Throttled. On-demand audio analysis speed is set at fast. I donāt have a rationale for selecting away from the default setting. I have a Mac Studio 2022, but use an InnuOS Zenith SE as the Roon Core, which is where the analysis would presumably be run. Donāt want to increase overhead on InnuOS, since its computer isnāt Roon-optimized. Or am I wrong about this? I donāt see the little waveform underneath that you mention, but have a slight understanding of what the analysis is for (volume leveling, crossfade and waveform displays, whatever that means). How did you learn these things? Thank you again and best regards.
Being on the forum for seven years, you pick stuff up 
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Thank YOU!! This is a rich software experience.
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Room farming is lots of fun. Plant a few files, and harvest lots of music. Thanks for the music garden folks!
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Ever since I signed up for the trial when I purchased my first Dragonfly Red, I was hooked! I kept myself coming back to Roon rather than Apple Music or Spotify. Roon has helped me enjoy every aspect of my music collection. Itās everything that the other services arenāt, in the sense that it isnāt a bland app that just gives you cover art and track listings. It helps me to delve deeper and understand how the music I love was created and collaborated on. The addition of ARC has been a very welcome one because now I have my own Roon powered Plex Amp service!
Also, ever since I got Roon I have been playing more music for me and my 3 little kids and that has created some great bonding time and memories because we have K Pop dance parties in the middle of the living room and just get down.
Needless to say Iāve signed up for the lifetime membership. Keep up the amazing work!
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Enjoy it! What a nice feedback.
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Jamie and Roon team, likewise as has been stated I very much appreciate the commitment, communication and follow-through that you all provide our mutual journey to enhance the joy of listening to great music - and almost as importantly keeping it all organized! Thank you!!!
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The sign of success is impassioned users who just want more. Roon has come so far, and has so much potential.
In addition to all the visible change, it seems like major infrastructure changes and investments were made in 2022 (elastic search, full .net, ARC mobile framework rebuild, earlyaccess program, more frequent releases, Iām sure others). Iām crossing fingers that those manifest in additional reliability and velocity on a number of fronts, because like a number of us I love Roon, what it does for me, and want it to do each of those things better and for it to do more. Stuff happening below the waterline gives me an extra special smile because itās usually a good sign.
So congrats on a big year, and hoping for even more above the waterline this year!
-j
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Just for info , Roon employed a search specific developer about 6 months ago(?) , they V 2.0 release moved the search code from the Local Core PC to a Cloud based solution to enable the use of newer and presumably more processor intensive technologies
So Search is very much work in progress
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My feelings exactly @Gimlet! I get most of my classical listening suggestions from the Classical Community Conversations thread as well. Iām routinely blown away by the wealth of knowledge on display there.
Iām pleased to say that weāre planning to give those recommendations the wider attention they deserve. Details to come soon.
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Hey @bill_perkins, the adjustments to audio analysis were indeed focused on under-the-hood changes aimed to lighten CPU load from processing.
The outcomes of the audio analysis all be the same, other than Core resources being reduced and the analysis generally taking less time. Dynamic range readings and other products of analysis werenāt affected. It was fine tuning of the processing itself.
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Thank you, Jamie, for the information. Great to increase CPU efficiency. Helps those of us using āotherā devices, such as InnuOS Zenith SE, as Roon cores.
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Kicked out my tv.
Why?
Cause Roon brings me joy!
Tnx.
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This āsmall corner of the internetā is invaluable to my ongoing music experience.
Itās not full of fake news or harmful content nor fed by overpaid/under-talented content creators, influencers, celebrities (particularly Z-list ones) or bad journalists (bloggers).
IMO itās simply āsocial mediaā in its best form with genuine providers and users all sharing the same passion and interest.
Iāve retired and am now part-time so hopefully going to overuse this in future.
Probably should leap to the lifetime subscription!
Huge thanks and congratulations to the Roon Team and all of the āCommunityā.
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