Suedkiez
December 8, 2022, 7:11pm
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I think there are more issues than just that, some fundamental in the design. For instance, if the endpoint/DAC buffers, and the standard does not tightly specify how much and what the delay may be, synchronized multi-room is already out of the window. Apart from the thread you read, Danny elaborated in other places as well, e.g.
@AndersVinberg : We are working with Bel Canto to get RAAT into their devices.
Our contempt for UPnP basically comes down to a few things:
UPnP requires codec support on the endpoint, therefore making different endpoints support a different subset of whats out there. This also puts a burden of patent licensing on the manufacturer.
UPnP has no good solution for streaming proprietary/unsupported/new formats
UPnP creates an ecosystem of lowest common denominator support
UPnP lacks “a brain”, like…
UPnP/DLNA matches RAAT just fine when it comes to “HiFi” (SQ). UPnP/DLNA has no problems when it comes to SQ. Nor does RAAT.
Roon Ready / Roon Tested / RAAT was invented to solve a broad range of issues. None were “personal”. They were all about the audio and music lover industry having a crap infrastructure (UPnP/DLNA/others) that led to incrementation improvements at best. Innovation in the non-SQ experience space was left to the Apples and Googles of the world, which didn’t care about SQ.
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The iPad app will let you do exactly what you want, but you still need a Roon brain somewhere, we call it the “Core”. The iPad will just be a remote that does no library or endpoint management.
You would need 1 NUC or equivalent device for Roon. The RPi thing only gives you the endpoint, not that brain.
Unlike DLNA, our RoonSpeakers protocol allows endpoints are very lightweight, which is what you want near your audio renderer. If you make a DLNA endpoint that light, it’d be a WAV file streame…