Roon as an output channel for other sources? Ugh, but maybe

When we, as the Sooloos team, were acquired by Meridian back in 2008, we proposed this exact product. We called it “the input device” – for example, take your record player’s analog output and route it around your home, and zone group it, etc… basically take telephony (point to point wires) and network it (packetize + route). As you can see, that project went nowhere because we never could get our acquirers to move on such weird hardware.

With Roon, it makes even more sense. There is a realtime nature to the audio, but we have that already with internet radio streaming.

I’ll bring it up with @brian and we can probably get it added to the roadmap now… it’d be pretty sweet to use a USB input on a RPi or Cubox to pull this off.

There is also the solution of a virtual sound card… but I’ve never seen it done right. Devialet’s AIR is a perfect example of what a disaster that solution can be.

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