Run Roon without an internet connection [not on roadmap]

[Carl]

@Palle_Sorensen

I think it is a very good idea, especially for Lifetime subscriptions. What if RoonLabs one day goes bankrupt?

Danny answered that question in a previous topic on that very subject.

What happens with the lifetime subscribers if the company folds or is sold?

Yah, I get it. So right now, the application obviously logs in to our cloud services, for both metadata and membership checking. In the unlikely event that we could not maintain those services, we would release one last build that would kill those dependencies, so you could continue to use the application without our infrastructure as a requirement. Obviously the functionality would be reduced, but it would work.

@Palle_Sorensen

Sonos will keep playing my NAS music w/o internet connection, so why not Roon?

Sonos is a hardware package… Roon is a software application that is licensed for use (within specific terms) by the user … Roon needs to periodically ensure that the license is valid to protect itself from piracy.

It protects both Roon and it’s legitimately users.

It’s quite a common practice with software vendors.