Airplay vs. wired Ethernet

[Geoff_Coupe]

@Jan-Frederik_Nieborg

What??? Not supporting DLNA/uPnP ?! Why !?

Because Roon is in the business of delivering a high-quality audiophile experience, and DLNA/uPnP ain’t that. See

What's wrong with UPnP?

@AndersVinberg: We are working with Bel Canto to get RAAT into their devices. Our contempt for UPnP basically comes down to a few things: UPnP requires codec support on the endpoint, therefore making different endpoints support a different subset of whats out there. This also puts a burden of patent licensing on the manufacturer. UPnP has no good solution for streaming proprietary/unsupported/new formats UPnP creates an ecosystem of lowest common denominator support UPnP lacks “a brain”, like…