[image] Roon as an output channel for other sources? Ugh, but maybe digitise vinyl playback on the fly and send it to my mac I’m just curious as to why you would want to do this. Isn’t the point of vinyl that it has a pristine, unconverted playback chain from disk to speakers?

[image] Roon as an output channel for other sources? Ugh, but maybe I’m just curious as to why you would want to do this. Isn’t the point of vinyl that it has a pristine, unconverted playback chain from disk to speakers? So that I can run DSP on it

And why not save the digitized file and put it in Roon, so you can play it without putting wear on the vinyl?

[image] AndersVinberg: And why not save the digitized file and put it in Roon, so you can play it without putting wear on the vinyl? I just want to play my records and apply room correction. Don’t really want to store the digitised file. In any event this is a bit off topic. The question is …

I could certainly do this on my Windows system with Vinyl Studio or Audacity and JRiver, all of which are available for Mac. JRiver can apply DSP to CD and vinyl input. If Roon ever allows input from CD or other devices it could do it too.

I’d like to do the same. I have a few albums ripped to hirez files via VinylStudio. The result is very good, but even with an easy to use program like VinylStudio it is too time consuming. And what if I upgrade my vinyl rig? Should I re-rip the albums? Presently the only option for live streaming i…

I may be misunderstanding, but isn’t the desired application same as this thread? [image] Roon as an output channel for other sources? Ugh, but maybe Feature Suggestions I have a Aurender X-725 DAC/Amp with just one digital input. A USB input. I use this amp with a pair…

I agree. But I wish someone would edit the “ugh” out of the thread title. Because its not so much ugh as gimme gimme gimme…pleeeeeeease! :wink: Also, @ogs , if there are basic instructions on settings a home network internet radio, can you add them or link to them? :-0

There are posts on the forum that talks about this I think. I’ll search a bit and see what I find EDIT: found two relevant threads. There may be more… [image] Support for more codecs (including FLAC) for Internet Radio streams would be lovely [FLAC delivered in Roon 1.5] Feature S…

Setting up a radio stream is a really cool idea. Am I reading it correctly though that at this stage it will be lossy?

Yes you’re right. I’ve just corrected my post above. I wrote lossless where lossy is what I meant. Sorry about that!

Digitise vinyl playback on the fly

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James_I (The truth is out there but not necessarily here) April 30, 2017, 1:31pm 7

I may be misunderstanding, but isn’t the desired application same as this thread?

I mean, if Roon showed up as having its own sound drivers, like JRiver does, wouldn’t that do what you need?