As the subject, why is Roon so resource hungry? An i7 or even i5 is overkill for a huge amount of applications or services - combined with an SSD and I could run an application server with an Oracle DB taking a few hundred transactions a second. So is an i7 and SSD really required or can it be run …

DSP is about the size of it, I think. Without using DSP, you can play any file on a basic setup. In addition, some of the database actions (eg creating the sound wave profile) takes up resources initially. I run my server using the ROCK kit on an i3 fanless computer with DSP and no problems. For …

[image] xxx: The base Roon Nucleus is an i3. Ahh ok… So it runs ok on an i3… That’s good to hear.

Perfect, thank you sir ! Good to know.

Weekend project, making a low spec server to store music and run roon… Cheered me up, im bored of spending decent money on computer hardware (that sits around idle most of the time)

[image] Margo_Margo: …im bored of spending decent money on computer hardware… Others are broke doing the same :grinning: so be happy and enjoy, it can get very bad, very quickly!

Its criminal all those wasted CPU cycles… Should be a way of selling the off while the PC is idle.

[image] Margo_Margo: Its criminal all those wasted CPU cycles… Should be a way of selling the off while the PC is idle. I think that there are any number of apps that will contribute idle cpu cycles to the service of some common good, e.g. looking for NEOs, analyzing the human genome, etc. A…

Er, have you read this? [image] Suggested hardware Roon Software Discussion It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro …

I feel like the best suggestion is “if it will run Spotify and iTunes, it will run Roon much much better.” On low spec hardware, if Tidal runs well (Roon runs better). iTunes runs…not great, but acceptably at best. Roon runs much better. If Spotify kind of runs but is a laggy mess, Roon runs cir…

It uses OpenGL for the front-end?? What’s the back-end, Couchbase+Hadoop??? lol… No wonder its so processor hungry.

Can anyone explain why Roon minimum hardware reqs are so huge?

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Geoff_Coupe (Geoff Coupe) May 22, 2019, 3:26pm 10

Er, have you read this?