Weird post to this thread…
anyway….by far the best music experience I have ever had. Was Apple Music before Roon. Will never go back.
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This is under investigation
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My experience is similar. Most of the time Roon is very reliable, with occasional minor issues resolved with reboots. I have hardwired most of my network, reboot my ROCK server weekly, and all my Pi endpoints are rebooted overnight (the excellent Ropieee software automates this process).
My only additional advice would be that you need to be pro-active about backups. Roon provides a built-in backup routine for the Database (music tags, album covers etc.) but NOT for your ripped music collection. You don’t want to lose thousands of albums because of a drive failure. So you will need a multi-layer backup strategy. I have automatic network backup to a local hard drive every night, using a separate Mac to run the backups, plus a daily offsite cloud backup, and an offline collection of hard drives which contain my backups from previous years. It might seem like overkill, but 10,000 albums is a lot to lose!
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I agree. I have three copies of my music collection. One on my Roon Server. One on my daily NUC and a third one which is not connected. But gets updated every once in awhile.
Just looking for an affordable cloud backup where to store 2+ tb of music. As I have a lot of music which is not available on Qobuz or Tidal.
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I can recommend Backblaze. Effectively it provides unlimited cloud backup with one year of version history for all the drives attached to one computer, with (so far) no limit on storage size. I installed it on a Mac Mini which also acts as my video server and main Roon music backup - currently backing up about 7TB. It seems to be better value than most of the alternatives, but YMMV. Originally recommended by someone from Roon, possibly @Danny if I remember correctly.
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I’ve been using Backblaze. It took an age to upload my 2TB worth of music files but once done it updates any changes straight away. There’s no limit to the amount of storage you can use, and uploaded files will stay in the cloud for a year if you delete any locally.
Ah, I see @Gimlet beat me to it!
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I agree about BU , for any internal drive I have 2 x USB external drives as BU, I thought about cloud but transferring 5Tb to the cloud and back (if disaster struck) seemed too daunting and time consuming.
I use SyncBack Pro which mirrors and only changed files so once a BU is done every incremental BU is quick.
I must admit these days I am often toying with the idea of streaming only . If my library went zap I probably would
Backblaze is worth considering. It normally works in the background as an “always on” utility and requires minimal set up apart from selecting which drives to back up. Individual tracks or albums csn be restored in minutes, but if you have a complete drive failure they will physically post you a new drive (at cost).
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I need to check that. I have ditched Windows and am running on Linux.
Backblaze seems to have command line support for Linux only.
I did stumble upon iDrive which does have full Linux support with their own Linux app.
I am going to look for some comparisons.
Unfortunately that’s correct. Backblaze Personal Backup (the “unlimited” plan) only supports Windows and macOS. So unless you want to deploy an old Mac Mini to run backups (my preferred solution, as I use ROCK as the Roon Server), you will need to consider other alternatives.
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Roon is great! It’s an uber-niche product and I love that. If you’re the tinkering type, it’s very easy to fall for Roon.
Roon and Roon ARC are very stable in my setup. I’ve run Roon Core on just about everything by now, even on very low-end systems. I think you’ll be happy with whichever setup you end up with.
Regarding CD ripping, what are you planning? I’m just curious, because I’m ripping all my CDs with a simple setup of Automatic Ripping Machine.
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I’ve ripped my CD’s with dbPoweramp. Great tool 
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Sorry, I posted this one indeed in the wrong thread.
Once you are used to roon you will see it as part of your whole setup and not just as a piece of software anymore. Removing roon from my setup would be like taking my turntable away.
and it works pretty much flawlessly for some time now. And I’m neither a network expert and I didn’t invest a lot of money into routers / switches .
A raspberry pi 4 as streamer is always nice to have around and works great to try out roon in different setups
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When I took the lifetime subscription in late 2022. I reasoned that the 699 Euro equalled the cost of a single piece of hi-fi equipment.
I’ve upgraded all my equipment in 2022 and 2023 so it was basically just one more expense.
699 Euro is cheaper then 2 of my 3 streamers costed me. Cheaper than my amplifier. And also cheaper than my speakers.
I already had my ISP and my own ASUS routers as setup. The only thing I’ve added was a switch in the living room and a bunch of Ethernet cables to get nearly everything connected to Ethernet.
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I think I also paid 700€ around that time and it was very well worth it , my reasoning also was that if I need multiple streamers I would be very soon spending more than I would on a roon license and free choice of what I use as roon endpoint. Also I didn’t want to have a mix of different streamers/software.
But I feel like lots of people discussing roon and the price of the software cannot wrap their head around the features that Roon offers.
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Same here 100%
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I don’t think that’s true at all. Anyway, how could we know what Roon support cares about?
For example, you can read here what people suggest and complain about, and compare that with the release notes.
That’s not the job of support
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