Suggest hosting our music libraries in a cloud instance. This could be a cloud instance that Roon Labs hosts (and charges for?) or go to Azure or AWS. Could simplify the “Roon Everywhere” request and minimize support issues related to the current architecture.
Not a new thought, 2017.
Pity Roon Labs keeps digging the hole deeper. I can imagine there’s not many customers asking since this is an architectural request, not a feature request. Since Roon has committed to data over cellular networks with 2.0, the communications issue should be solvable. Hopefully they are working on this but haven’t announced.
I’m a fan of Roon. It’s like every record in the world is part of my personal collection. Amazing! But with every new customer their configuration management issues just get more difficult.
As someone who is able to manage the various elements of my Roon setup from network through dedicated core to proper Roon Ready endpoint I actually don’t need any of that to be taken off me. It may be an illusion but I like the control I have. That said, there are an awful lot of people who might want that all taken away and be left with a device that simply plays Roon.
Totally get it, Henry. I’m a tech and audio geek. An admin. Made a living doing it. But Roon, for me, is about music.
When it works, it’s terrific. When it doesn’t work today and did yesterday and nothing in my config changed, it’s maddening. The community support model is well-intentioned, but hasn’t been effective in the issues I’ve had.
As a working musician with a sizable network. All of the musicians I know would LOVE Roon. There are only a couple I would recommend it to because they don’t have the tech chops to install it and keep it going.
There are a lot of guys like us out there, Henry. But are there enough to keep the product profitable going forward? If we’re the target market, that seems pretty small…
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