Roon concurrent usage: Performances impact, limitations?

Roon Software Discussion
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Hi,
As a networked system i’ve understood Roon is intended to be multi-users and multi-devices.

i’m curious about concurrent usage impacts, for example in a typical family setup where some users are browsing, others listening from local library or from TIDAL.

  • Performance issue, hardware requirements ?
  • Legal limits on TIDAL account ?

Regards
BP

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This might be useful to you.

In general, I focus on library size, not concurrent usage, as the thing that should drive hardware choices. To a certain extent the type of audio content you’re playing (particularly high-res PCM and DSD) and whether your output devices require format conversion (especially DSD->PCM conversion) could come into play if you were doing a lot of streams at once.

I do not recommend making overly constrained hardware choices like Atom, Celeron, machines with <4gb of RAM, machines that will put Roon’s databases on a spinning disk, and so forth.

We don’t artificially limit TIDAL playback on our end, but we are not in a position to comment on their legal obligations to the copyright holders or the rules that are enforced on their side, so I’m going to leave that one alone.

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Thank you Brian.

From your useful message my understanding is that a Core hardware host specs like:
WIN NUC I7 / 16GB RAM / SSD , audio files storage on a powerful NAS
Would be OK to run family concurrent usage on a 100 000 tracks library (mainly FLAC redbook no DSD) as my projected setup diagram

Correct ?

Regards
BP

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Yup. That setup looks great.

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Sure, but still only a diagram today because some missing parts:

  • Roon compatible high SQ (non Meridian) endpoints
  • RoonSpeakers
  • Roon Core running on Linux x86 powerful NAS (Ideally and to avoid a new box in my closet, but i understand your point about spinning disks).

Hope time is on my (our) side.

BP

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Yup.

FYI @brian, I’ve got a CentOS-based NAS with support for RPM and docker packages, if you need a tester :wink:

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Hope time is on my (our) side.

We are working on it! :slight_smile: