Roon Internet bandwidth requirements

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@Mike_O_Neill

It makes sense , for the algorithm in question to only run on heavy duty hardware in the cloud means that it must be quite processor heavy or we could run it each on our own cores.

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Roon Search Overhauled [2022-12] Update

I’ve answered the “why can’t we run the servers at home” question before, so I’ll paste it here– I very much doubt that any significant number of people have the infrastructure to run this stuff at home. We’re talking about roughly 100 CPUs and a few terabytes of RAM just to spin everything up and serve the first request. The most costly part would be the elasticsearch cluster, as that scales with the size of TIDAL/Qobuz catalogs, so you would need about as infrastructure as we are running eve…