I also understand the difference between a simple report and clickbait.
Agreed, but the internet has enabled so much more since its easier to create.
The issue has not changed: TIDAL is exactly the same as it always was (external investments away from death). Roon is at risk as long as it does not provide its own streaming service or has multiple partners allowing the full Roon experience. Roon members are at the mercy of streaming services unless they own all their content.
What is there to address? Do you want to know our plans with other streaming partners? We continue to poke/investigate/talk-to/etc many streaming providers. No movement worth reporting has occurred. We’d love to do something. We are not willing to dilute the Roon experience – there is no point to Roon if we do. I asked a legit question about Spotify Connect + Roon above, and the response is basically an auxiliary use case for third parties coming over or to use Roon exclusively as an audio streaming network system. While both are interesting use cases, we do not believe it is core enough to justify the development effort at a high priority. There are much better fish to fry.
As for the “messenger” - let’s not amplify this noisemaker any further by implying they have a message they carried. The message is of no value. It is just noise being made to make you look at ads, containing no new data.