This is all such good news. I am more pleased to be a Roon customer right now that at any time since I first subscribed and launched my Roon “Core” five years ago.
Keep it up!
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Happy to be able again to enjoy my local music if and when my internet is down!
Well done team!
Cheers
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Not even mentioning the fact MQA files are now not accessible if they also exist in HiRes.
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Maybe you missed this. Tidal is moving away from MQA.
This is the way to do things. 
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I didn’t miss it. The MQA files are still there, they’re just limiting the access.
I’m done with Roon. There is now zero need for it.
I’m wondering why I need Tidal since it’s the same as Qobuz now.
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Very happy to hear that there will be a refocus on local libraries. I am sure that a local only search option will fastly increase the search speed so I am not worried that bypassing cloud search will mean delays before results will be displayed.
Can’t wait to see the first improvements!
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This is great news!
I am looking forward for a great experience with my massive amount of classical box sets.
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I wouldn’t get ahead of myself here. Being able to use Roon offline doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be a optional local-only search even if it’s online. Nor is there a guarantee that it will be faster.
We will see where this goes.
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Might still need internet for some functionality to work properly or optimally.
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Great news!
I am a PC enthusiast and I noticed that Roon works rather slow (32gb serwer on win11). On the same library MediaMonkey or Musicbee works lightning fast - you browse, press play and it plays in 0.5s. In Roon to load the same library takes time, scrolling is not smooth and it takes a lot of unneeded data when just browsing (Roon cache on ssd). I am really looking forward to give offline music some sweet, sweet love!
Any timeframe for this? Announcing is not the same as delivering a download that fixes the bug. If it’s going to take another year or two, I’ll have moved on to other software by then. It’s the only reason I stuck with 1.8, and will continue to do so until either a usable version of Roon is available to install, or I find something to replace it with.
Regardless, at least I can thank the founders for finally listening to us. And, that Harman can give Roon the resources needed to move ahead with everything planned. 
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Released today.
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You guys are absolutely top ! Thank you. My lifetime purchase in 2016 is truly the gift that keeps on giving. Super job !
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Now that Roon is focusing on “audio enthusiast” once again, I wonder if a price increase might be coming? Let those “non-enthusiast” head over to Spotify or Apple Music. Current Roon pricing…
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Has early access been updated or is production ahead?
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Party time! 
Thanks!
True, but one can always hope 
If Roon uses a halfway modern db engine subsecond response times on a search query from a collection of a million tracks could be done on Nucleus hardware.
You had me at “major improvements to our playlist functionality”!! Whohoo!
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