@BrianW: you’re perfectly right. The original audio stream is kept untouched, the Roon Core is retrieving metadata separetely from another dedicated server, and the Roon Client is displaying it. I can’t imagine that the extra load on the network of periodically retrieving metadata can “break” the audio stream. I am a daily Live Radio listener and in the last months I have not experienced any dropouts on the “metadata enhanced” audio streams, including BBC 3 and 6 (I don’t listen to BBC Radio 4).
More details on the Live RAdio metadata service here : Roon Exclusive: Live Radio metadata for 80+ stations incl. BBC, Radio France, FLAC radios and more
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