But the Sllimdevices software still works and is being improved. They allow outsiders to keep it going.
My SBT still going strong.
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The Roon team started around 2004 making the Sooloos streamer platform. It was revolutionary at the time.
They sold to Meridian around 2008.
They went on to develop Roon around 2015. Again a revolutionary product.
They sold to the Harman group in 2023.
Hereās my prediction: Some time in the future, the geniuses that made the products weāve come to love will come up with something new. I predict itās going to be called iYoohoo, because Danny likes names with double o in it and heās also going to use the new name to finally come out of the closet.
It will be brain based. No more mucking around with hardware. Itāll go straight to the brain, bypassing even your eyes and ears. Itāll be multi channel, virtual 3D and controlled by thought only.
Anything less than that and Iāll be disappointed.
Joking aside. These guys have done nothing in the past 20+ year but surprise the audio community with class leading products. It really wouldnāt surprise me if in ten years time we look back at this acquisition and think; Roon? yeah, it was good at the time, but Iām so glad we now have iYoohoo.
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ARC works fine for me, and I live in a rural area and only have access to ADSL 100 up, 10 down.
So it is some other issue.
If they want to end the lifetime subscription but give us a version of Roon that will continue working without updates, I 'm fine with that.
Before Roon I used JRiver. They had frequent updates that cost about $20 a pop, but older versions kept working. If you didnāt see any need for the new and improved features, you didnāt have to pay.
That model is okay with me.
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They could make a Roon version like LMS material (graphical UI version where you can display album and artist information - and integration of the streaming services to your library. The album/artist information is from free sources).
Not as nicely displayed and integrated as in Roon, but there, nonetheless. It doesnāt cost a penny, and it works.
There is an off-button for ARC? Somehow canāt find it. Where is it located?
Can we stop talking about ARC in here, pleaseā¦ Use the other topics.
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Iām having Big Yellow Taxi feelings. 
I hope Iām wrong.
The slim ā Logitech scenario is giving me nightmares in the current context.
Just because Roon is miles ahead of all other software doesnāt mean we wonāt all be plunged into DNLA darkness whilst BMWs happily groove in the RAAT Race.
.sjb
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I would agree with you if I had one hifi, in one room.
Currently in roon I have:
3 x ATVs
4 x Raspberry Pis
1xRock hack
1xNode
2xPC
1xMac
2xiPhones
The server.
If roon goes away, I am knackered to put it bluntly. The only other server based solution I know of is LMS, that āmayā support all of these devices, but its as ugly as sin, even with āmaterialā skin and the server side is just horrid to use.
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A massive congratulations to the Roon team. Excited to see the Roon brand grow and prosper at an accelerated rate with the backing of Samsung.
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Nope itās about it being stable which it hasnāt been. I use PlexAmp daily with no issues. ARC has been a disaster and was broken for nearly a year. Constant blames on peopleās network until they actually looked into it and oh itās a Roon issue.
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Anyone who is in pro audio in the UK knows that this will end badly.
Soundcraft: enough said.
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One scenario I havenāt seen bandied about is that Roon continues as is, but with a renewed appeal to its core user base, the older audiophile (letās call it Roon āProā), and Samsung peels off the tech they want, which might primarily be for mobile and/or lifestyle hifi, and ditch the home core concept and go cloud as some sort of Roon lite (letās call it ROOL).
I could be way off base, but I have a feeling that the time and expense of developing ARC didnāt attract a new demographic subscription base the way they predicted, but did cement the product as a complete package they could sell on. ARC pleased a certain core of users with FOMO, but really probably created more user support hassles then new users (who then become a new set of support users that Roon just isnāt ramped up for).
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Iāll buy in to the second half of your synopsis, do you accept FTX bitcoin?
Ha! No, just ethereum.
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Yep Iām probably about to pull the plug on the brand new DMP A8 so I can kill Roon as quickly as possible (especially with this news as Samsung is certainly not known to be one of the more upstanding Companies around). Roon already doesnāt see my SACD image files of which is 90% of my local library (ES will)ā¦ and I really want to hear what that state-of-the-art AKM DAC can do!
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Never had a problem with ARC.
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There is no āFTX Bitcoinā, you either hold Bitcoin or you donāt. Sad lesson from scammers and fraudsters.
Put me solidly in the Charlie Munger camp as far as crypto goes.
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