After a reboot, which includes a startup of Roonserver, on a few occasions I’ve noticed Roonserver downloading data from the Internet at a rate of around 7Mbps. This goes on for at least 10 minutes, but doesn’t happen every time. A couple of times I’ve restarted Roonserver manually and the downloading didn’t resume. The last time I left it, and it did seem to stop of its own accord eventually.
What is Roonserver downloading? Is this normal? I have a Tidal connection, if that makes a difference.
Well I guess not! Just that I’ve used Roon for years and I’ve never noticed this before, so am wondering whether anything has changed and whether the length of time it takes to do this, and the amount of data it seems to download, has always been the same. 7Mbps for several minutes sure sounds like a lot!
It’s pretty dependent on library size as well. If one element in your library changes then I think it goes looking chasing down all the links to see if they have updated, then each of those updated elements ad infinitum.
It’s a bugger for those on limited data plans but as long as you have a good connection you should be fine. Roon is very, very chatty across the network. Have a look at how many DNS pings it does, constant. That’s why changing to the fastest possible dns service speeds roon up.
Even if your library doesn’t change the back end might. Especially if you have a streaming service.
The last time I played this it had the black background with gold letters album cover, now…
