Recently on the community site I’ve been reading about ARC or Roon not functioning smoothly with xlarge libraries. I’m no engineer so anything I say here can only be construed as conjecture. I can’t doubt the size of some of these libraries, however for me, ambiguity creeps in when so many individuals have 500-700k tracks. But the point here is feature suggestions.
I’ve been a Kaleidescape user for close to 20 years and they have successfully managed drive based movie libraries upwards of 100Tb. They’ve done it by allowing multiple servers within a single system. Each server is connected to the home network and multiple players can see and access all of the content. In the case of Roon, first there needs to be a set capacity for the Nucleus One and the Titan. None of this maybe it will maybe it won’t stuff. If you’re over capacity you’ve breached the system capabilities. If/when this happens you can simply add an additional Nucleus [with storage of course] to add capacity. This would require a hub/bridge type setup. The bridge would have the computing power. Each Roon remote and ARC would point to the bridge for file management. Conversation?
Kaleidescape and movies are not an apt comparison.
Assume that the average movie size is 20 GB. That is 5000 movies for 100 TB of storage.
Roon could manage a 100 TB music library, no problem — if it consisted of 5000 tracks at 20 GB each. That would be a small library.
AJ
AJ, I think you’re absolutely correct. However the conversations about performance of “large libraries” continue. That’s why I believe software construction reconstruction might improve performance.
When I joined Roon, I had to decide if I wanted a Nucleus or Nucleus+. I had ~10k cds plus Qobuz and Tidal. I never thought in terms of tracks however it was over ~150k. Not super large, but significant. So the Nucleus+ was a no brainer. The best performance only came when I disconnected the streaming services. Over time the N+ performance degraded [Roon replaced motherboard]. It was never the same.
I built a NUC with more memory [32gb], pointed it to the Nucleus 8Tb SSD and perf has been stellar. Even though everyone told me increased Ram didn’t matter. Cancelled Tidal kept Qobuz. A long winded way of saying… if we would look at the engine of the product we might find improvements.