So we’ll finally see the “input device” that @danny and @brian have been talking about a long time ago.
I wanted that badly, but it took forever so I gave it up and sold all my vinyl and players some time ago. I ripped a few albums with VinylStudio. Sound was excellent, but I wanted to play albums rather than rip them. Relay would work fine for playing, but that is too late now.
I still hope a RPI can be used as a DIY Relay. Maybe someone can finally make a high quality ADC HAT?
So how do you control Apple playing on a computer in one room and your Roon Ready player is in a different room ? Will HQ player change sampling rates or would that lossless switcher for a Mac do the trick?
James_I
(The truth is out there but not necessarily here)
149
I’m guessing this won’t be released as software and will only be available in new devices?
@davidh I highly doubt that will happen. Jamie’s post notes legacy formats and wired devices so it will not likely give you anything more than advance and back one track and pause and play. I doubt it will show what is playing but it could using music detection services available today like shazam. So if you want a high functioning streaming service then you will have to wait or move to Qobuz or Tidal. I see that KKBox was added but I do not know what that is… I personally use spotify through the libraspot entrypoint. Its fine but unstable so sometimes you have to hit play more times that you would like and you have to start spotify first so its a bit finicky.
@goat I have 2 hifiberry’s with ADC and they are awesome. I run my record player and aux in through them. Huge fan. I have 4 hifiberry dacs and the sound sync’d through out my house and back yard is awesome with out paying 1000s for every room.
How is Roon going to make this better than what’s available now and works such as audio entry point or rooPlay?maybe get rid of the delay by routing it to a radio station? It’s a nice feature for sure to input outside sources into the Roon ecosystem and to be able to use Roon DSP. Seems Roon is playing catch up. Bluesound has had this for a while. They had/have a device that will input an outside sources into their ecosystem, https://www.bluesound.com/usa/hub.
Bang&Olufsen has been doing this as well, for quite a long time.
But unfortunately, apart from Apple AirPlay, Spotify Connect, Google Cast, TIDAL Connect, B&O Radio, Deezer … nothing else for years.
Exciting for sure, but I’ve been doing this for a couple of years already by using the excellent rooPlay Roon extension. The only downside to rooPlay is that it adds ~8 seconds of latency. This is generally not consequential, and can even be beneficial with vinyl playback as it gives me time to return to my chair after dropping the needle.
Even Devialet has this function for their Phantom speakers. The Arch can handle vinyl or line signals and transfers audio over the network.
It’s about time Roon does this. I repeat myself here, but a DIY with a PI would be nice and let me add: lower the latency!
AceRimmer
(Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)
Split this topic
160
AceRimmer
(Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!)
161
Ok I split out the totally off topic posts of late to it’s own thread in feedback.
Let’s keep it where it needs to be please.
Thank you for your cooperation.
I don’t get digitizing ticks and pops from a turntable for roon playback. digital to analog to vinyl to analog to digital to analog. This will further move the sound quality needle in roon.