The real solution here is to extract the individual tracks from the ISO. Danny explains the difficulty and it seems like a ton of work for a small subset of Roon users and potential customers. No one seems to want to play CD ISOs…
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Sonore makes a free program that splits the iso into it’s indiviudual tracks. Takes a few seconds per iso.
Do that, problem solved.
I definitely don’t buy Roon explanations in this case. I think, that Roon simply skip out on work…
This is the basic functionality of the music playback software.
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Let me guess you are a Jriver or FooBar user, CUE/FLAC omission is a much bigger and wider used issue, but there are was around it
Then there’s Apple Watch 
Just think of all the other advantages
Why don’t you buy Roon’s explanation? What Danny says makes complete sense. Roon is programed assuming access to individual files. An ISO creates many operability issues that would have to be “handled”. Roon, up to this point, has chosen to not “handle” those issues. If it were as simple as adding some code I am sure they would have done it by now.
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Convert to DSF files and you’re good to go. Roon is designed to play music files, not convert formats.
Simply - it ought to work! It’s important functionality.
And the clever method ought to be found - not explain that ISO doesn’t suit our system …
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I am sorry, but SACD ISO is not a mainstream format. It is niche at most and certainly not “important” to support. It would be “nice to have” support but only a select few are going to lose sleep over it. Roon certainly isn’t…
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MQA is no mainstream format neither. And Roon spent big time in implementing it.
I hope SACD Iso functionality is available sooner than later for Roonies who need it.
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Sure. But MQA is a format that every Tidal subscriber had access to would likely use in one way or another. So MQA is far more important to support than SACD ISO. Also, supporting MQA did not require solving a series of operability issues in the process as everything was still based in individual files.
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I don’t get the arguing here. If you’re not interested in this feature, why bloat the thread and bring more visibility to it? Obviously there is interest as this is one of the larger threads overall. In my opinion, it is a surprising missing feature for a very expensive niche product that exactly targets niche uses. If you personally won’t use it, okay, but why spend time debating? 
From an implimentation perspective I do think the complexity seems overstated. Yes it needs a level of abstraction - process it as individual tracks, put a flag in the database indicating their source it is an ISO, and disable certain features like file management based on that flag. That’s kind of annoying to problem solve for every edge case, but software does this kind of thing all the time - and obviously other much cheaper products manage to deal with ISOs just fine.
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When you name one legal way of aquiring ISO images i’ll support your request.
Until then, get the equipment and skills to rip your own images, and do your homework. Damned man, DSD2ISO even defaults to ripping to separate files if i’m not mistaken.
With different feature sets and much less consistent user interfaces and operations. This isn’t about product cost. But, I somehow think you know that…
Thanks for your opinion.
But, you have no hand in implementing SACD Iso support or not.
You waste your time here in this thread.
You are a user, you are no part of team Roon.
My opinion counts just as much as yours does. I have a bunch of SACDs that I have personally ripped and use with Roon. I could have ripped them to ISO but I chose to rip them to DSF because that offered me the most flexibility with both playback and metadata.
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You can buy ISOs. Pentatone, for one, sells them.
Blah, blah.
It’s a niche within a niche within a niche.
Probably about .001 of users care about it.
Convert your iso’s to dsf and be done with it. That’s what I did. It really isn’t hard or time consuming.
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Link, please?
I checked and Jesse is correct. You can buy music in DSD ISO format at Pentatone.
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