When I am watching TV I would really love to be able to route the audio to the numerous endpoints. The amplifier has an analog out and the TV has an optical out. The core is a Mac mini with an analog in and a USB optical in.
I don’t care about sync, I just want to hear the audio while I make a cup of tea, wait for a game kick-off, expect a news item etc.
I guess I could run little streaming server and point the Roon Internet Radio function at it - bu that seems like a hack.
Can this be added to a future release? It doesn’t look hard to do. The UI could make it an Internet Radio option.
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This has been requested quite a few times, usually to play vinyl over the Roon transport network but at times related to video as well. You’re right if you just had a TV output to a computer sound input would be impossible to sync. I suspect that Roon would only implement this after getting through a long backlog of other enhancements, but who really knows (other than Roon, and they don’t say)?
Unfortunately, no response from Roon. I’d just like to know whether they have definitely discarded that option, or if it still is being somewhere on a to-do list.
It would really be a great feature, especially if one likes to use “low-cost” endpoints for certain rooms. Bluesound eg. is able to stream an external source through the whole house, but sometimes a Bluesound speaker is not practical (I don’t like speakers sitting on a working place in the kitchen, I have the speakers built in there) or too expensive (Node2 would do the job, but hey…too much $$ for that).
I would guess (and hope) this feature is still on a to-do list. Judging by the enthusiasm I’ve seen from @brian and @danny on the ‘input device’ there is a good chance we’ll see it in the future… probably more complex to implement than expected, hence the extra time and silence.