Do You Have A Roon Fallback Plan - Options / Alternatives

[Progisus]

Strike that off the plan. Thanks.

[ffk (Doctors Practice. Plumbers Perform.)]

I just relaunched hqplayer on Mac, denyed connections out until quit with littlesnitch to signalyst.com and signalyst.eu

It did find my naa and allowed me to play local files. So I guess it does work. The iOS app doesn’t seem to work though.

So it’s kind of a fallback solution. It works better than Roon does without an internet connectivity.

[S-and-E (S & E Music)]

@kim_hixson

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[JohnFlower (John)]

@James_I

That said, I am certainly dusting off the alternatives. This was my beef with Roon from the beginning, that its methods of tagging and organization are within the Roon database rather than embedded metadata in the files, meaning that much of my organizing work will be lost if I stop using Roon. However, that is not as big of a deal as it was to me in 2017 when I started with Roon because, well, streaming titles don’t have my embedded metadata either. So I probably am pretty committed to trying to use Roon or its derivative in some form if at all possible. So let’s hope that Harman decides even if it branches off development from “our Roon” that it makes it possible to bridge “our Roon” to Harman’s products.

Are there any alternatives that detach file metadata like Roon does? Saving information to an internal database is essential for my setup because I can’t modify the files.

[James_I (The truth is out there but not necessarily here)]

I’m not sure because it’s opposite of what I’d want. J River may have that but it doesn’t integrate any streaming service.

[Jim_F]

I have a Mac Mini (late 2014) I use as a backup server for my Nucleus and also to “keep tabs” on the Nucleus when away from home in case it needs a reboot or reconnect to Tidal or Qobuz. I just added a much faster 1TB SSD to the Mac Mini so it is much faster and more responsive.

The Mac Mini already has Roon and Apple Music installed and I just installed Audirvana 3.5. It’s playing to my main system over UPnP to a RPi4, Meridian Prime, Denon AVR-2805, and Pioneer HPM-60 speakers.

This could be another fallback if I lost internet. I would use my Verizon Hotspot data to stream from Tidal and/or Qobuz.