Does Roon download entire track into RAM? [Memory Playback Discussion]

[evand]

I do think it is a legitimate question for Roon to speak to. Not necessarily to devote a bunch of resources to, but at least to speak to whether RAM playback could improve quality and if Roon’s architecture could ever reasonably support it.

Option to enable RAM memory playback [to avoid caching problems]

@brian What are your thought about improving sound? I’m going to start with some background, and my philosophy on this stuff, then get to your point. In terms of EM/RF noise, computers are noisy things, and in general, not a great thing to have near audio devices. From our perspective, the first class solution will always be to create some separation between the media server and the endpoint. USB is not a great choice for this. Ethernet is much better. I have a nice DAC here that I use as a…