Is it normal for Roon's database size/structure to be so large? [yes]

[evand]

Whatever its advantages for Roon (besides it being free), it had this obvious disadvantage for the end user…

Is this really something to cry about, having to make a backup that takes some time?

Here’s why Roon uses leveldb:

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Under the hood, Roon is a professional grade database that manages hundreds of thousands to millions of metadata entities in order to represent a typical music collection. This degree of data management and indexing is almost unprecedented in typical desktop applications. And as a goal, we are trying to fetch and display whatever piece of data you ask for, no matter how complex the requirements, onto your screen in 50ms or less.