I think he’s only into gadgets and toys rather than Music & noise…Half the reason I listen to music is because I know exactly what I want to hear because of a previous listen…
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Roughly a million tracks would easily last the rest of my listening life.
Urk … that sound so “final” 
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Yeah it’s just work if you listen to song after song, one time only. Sounds like a poorly paid job.
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since I had a problem with overheating, I shut down my roonserver daily. Using it max. 16 hrs the day, why should I give the fan (the cooling system) the opportunity to collect even more dust than it already does…
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Cool.
What kind of albums have you added:sweat_smile:? Looks kind of strange since every album holds like 17 tracks on average and also there is not a lot of composers compared to the massvie amount of tracks.
How large is your library and what harware do you use? Are this local files only?
Have you noticed any difference in performance when the library is getting like kind of huge?
Anyway good to know that i seems to have some headroom left to collect some more music before getting into problems. 
Thank you for sharing your experience. 
Composer count on Home only includes classical composers.
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at my point it seems to be the number of bootlegs (>20.000) without any kind of tagging
I also try to rate series as one album
But how does it work, when your library grows bigger number of files to indexing, you will put some stress to the roon server software, so it will slow everything down? Or is it rather the size of all the local files? Or it doesn’t matter if it’s local or not, it’s just the huge amount of files to indexing that matters?
What’s the most important when your library grows big, enugh RAM, good enough CPU or ssd cache for rooon server and database together with ssd cashe for tracks stored on standard hdd?
I guess since I’ve noticed my RAM never have execeeded 21 of my 64 Gb installed, it meens that I’ve got enugh also I’ve never seen roon put a lot of load to my CPU, wich also would indicate that it’s powerful enugh I think. I’m rather new too roon so I would like to learn as much as possible.
Very, interesting thread by the way.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
sorry, don´t understand the last statement.
I’m reading my backup copy now, I haven’t checked it for a long time and I’ll have to delete a lot of duplicates again
Mostly this. However, local storage can have additional problematic properties that just doesn’t happen with streaming, e.g.,
- Artist folders with hundreds of album folders in them, or folders with thousands of tracks
- Very high numbers of albums that aren’t identified by Roon (there were cases with tens of thousands of them)
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People actually have $1,000,000 worth of legal music files? I have 47 local tracks. 
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so it is, as I´m no streamer, I have to do the best with my collection
There are certain artists who have huge live archives that are free of charge and not available on streaming. We have seen issues frequently with those because of sheer numbers, because they are not on MusicBrainz and hence unidentified, and partly also because of poor user grooming.
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Why not? I bought in the region of 1,000 tracks from download shops plus physical discs to rip containing another 200 tracks - last month alone. Okay, that was a productive one in terms of growing the collection, but it happens pretty quickly if there are nice offers and you have the goal to complete some parts of your collection.
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I said $1,000,000. I can think of plenty of worthwhile ways to spend $995,000. If someone wants to spend that much and has the funds, good for them.
I see that as a rhetorical question, Jim. And I think that you know the answer. Acquiring 1,000,000 tracks by completely legal means in the US is highly unlikely. Now, take that for whatever you will.
AJ
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I don’t disagree, but I will point out that I have about 125,000 completely legal tracks. And my collection is a quarter the size of a good friend, who if he ripped everything (he hasn’t) would likely be 500,000 digital and legal files. We’ve both been collecting music for almost 60 years, seriously for at least 50.
edit: and by legal, I mean purchased, mostly CDs that were then ripped. But I’m sure I have some free giveaway files/CDs in there somewhere that were legally acquired. Some bands often give away digital downloads (They Might Be Giants, Wilco, etc.)
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Every week or two I do a tour of the charity shops in an adjacent town centre, most are priced at 3 CDs for £1, it takes me less than an hour to go round them all and I can come away with quite a haul, many of them in pristine condition.
I’ve had some great finds there of music I have genuine interest in, it’s really easy to build a collection cheaply.
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On a bad day, are you 80?
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