Linn has a platform that is extremely long-lived, and are dedicated to supporting their devices (including ones that go quite far back historically). So together, we decided it would be best for them to come up with a new protocol that would run well on their platform, all the back to devices from years past. This protocol is NOT based on UPnP, nor is it in any way related to UPnP.
While the implementations are radically different for each of these, we have done this before: Meridian, Airplay, Sonos, Devialet AIR, and the KEF LS50W.
Normally we don’t like to do this type of thing, but given Linn’s position in the market and their dedicated customer base, we felt it was worth the effort. Same for the rest of those implementations.
Is it be possible to be part of the Roon beta programme, as I understand the latest Linn DS firmware release is supporting Roon? I have been a long term Linn and Roon user, and currently use my DS with the uRendu Bridge to play music with Roon to my DS.
Not to worry, if you already have a number of beta testers, but I thought there was no harm in asking
Best regards
Alan
Hey folks – Linn testing is underway with our alpha testers and our QA team.
For the moment we are not adding any additional testers to our Alpha team, but that could change in the future and we really appreciate the interest.
A number of new features and improvements are currently in development and testing, including our Linn implementation. Things are going well and Linn’s beta firmware release is an important milestone, but we’ve still got a good deal of testing to do before our QA team certifies this integration. For the moment, I would urge patience from everyone.
Roon doesn’t generally comment about testing and QA issues. That would probably change if an announced intended feature was found to be unfeasible, so no news is good news.
The latest Linn software is updated with Roon option but if I go in the Roon settings I can’t see my Linn Akurate Exaxt as a Roon ready device: do I miss something?
