Music services are not going to happen: Tidal is the only monopolist and its fine for Roon. So, this section can be closed!

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

Roon is not content to have a single streaming service provider and remains open to integration with further providers who are able to provide the data referred to by Danny in this post:

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we require post-normalized & pre-processed data dumps from the labels on a daily basis, of all new content, plus some interesting data like gain analysis, MQA information, and region copyright information. post-normalized means: labels deliver the data in multiple formats. the streaming services normalize those formats into 1 format. we want that 1 format. pre-processed: label metadata is messy and terrible, and streaming services clean that up to make it presentable. this is one of our core …

So this section remains but the thread has nowhere to go.