Can I access my music from the SSD, inside my Nucleus without a subscription?

[DJM]

If it wasn’t possible to renew my Roon subscription, ie…Roon go out of business, or they decide to double, or even triple the subscription price, would I be able to access my music which is stored on the 1TB SSD inside my Nucleus? As someone mentioned in a previous post, would my Nucleus become a door stop?

[RBM (René)]

Here’s a quote of Roon’s COO about what would happen in the unlikely event that Roon would go out of business:

What happens with the lifetime subscribers if the company folds or is sold?

Yah, I get it. So right now, the application obviously logs in to our cloud services, for both metadata and membership checking. In the unlikely event that we could not maintain those services, we would release one last build that would kill those dependencies, so you could continue to use the application without our infrastructure as a requirement. Obviously the functionality would be reduced, but it would work.

As for your music: RoonOS is Linux at its core, beit highly optimized for running Roon. Your music is shared though SMB – this will continue to be the case even is the Roonserver part is not running.

[Jim_F]

Worse case scenario, keep your original music files on a USB drive stored in a safe place. Have that drive backed up to a computer, NAS, or another USB drive. Copy those files to a SSD that you installed inside your Nucleus. You’re protected in almost any possible situation with or without Roon or any other service.