Roon Core hardware reqirements for Qobuz streaming

[Alexey_Agafonov]

Roon Radio in version 1.6 of Roon will explore the entire known universe of music in streaming, not just what is in your collection.

In my case the entire universe is essentially the whole Qobuz catalogue. Exploring the whole Qobuz looks expensive to me, much more expensive than exploring an offline collection of 10000 albums.

Besides, people are reporting that Radio suggested artists unknown to them:

Roon Radio Feedback Thread

I had my first encounter with the Roon Radio 1.6 earlier this week and like the result. It found Tidal tracks that paired nicely with what I’d been playing, Nguyen Le, a Vietnamese jazz guitarist who boldly mixes traditional rhythms and melodies with western post-bop fusion jazz. That’s a pretty heady mix of attributes to use as selection criteria but Radio 1.6 did nicely and found several Tidal artists unknown to me! There’s a easter egg in the queue view. If you scroll it backward past now pl…

Radio 1.6 did nicely and found several Tidal artists unknown to me!

So I’m still in doubts about the hardware requirements. Of cause, processing the whole Qobuz collection doesn’t have to be expensive. If the Qobuz API was fine grained enough and well aligned with Roon’s needs, Roon could have made next track suggestion merely by sending a detailed request to Qobuz and receiving a compact response with one or several tracks. But I don’t know the Roon/ Qobuz communication protocol. In theory, Roon may need to ask, say for all the Jazz Fusion albums in 1997, or something like that.