RoonReady + HQPlayer, unfortunately, don’t work together, because HQPlayer doesn’t provide a way for us to get the audio back into Roon for further re-distribution. Once we pass the stream to HQPlayer, HQPlayer owns the rest of the path to the endpoint.
Many people are using HQPlayer’s NAA to accomplish this kind of configuration–it’s the same sort of thing as RAAT–a network protocol for moving the audio to another place before rendering it, but it’s much simpler in scope.