Again this can all be circumnavigated with a “Stream What You Hear” type virtual soundcard in Roon. JRiver does it with their WDM function. No deals required.
If Roon can use this function to get more people to subscribe they will have more power to make deals with streaming services like Soundcloud so that they can move towards integration in the future.
Is integration of Soundcloud important to you or the ability to listen to Soundcloud and hear at your Roon endpoint more important? My guess is the later. Roon doesnt seem to think so.
How do you stream on a ROCK or Nucleus or Linux or Sonology or QNAP box, so you can feed it into a virtual soundcard?
How do you stream on a headless NUC?
You’d have to do a one time configuration to add a SoundCloud account, or mixcloud account. Then from your control app you could see your feed, favorites and so on. We are not requesting all streaming at will, but an expanded set of sources. They would work more like Internet Radio (no metadata) not like Tidal.
I understand that. My point was about the distributed architecture of Roon. It isn’t really useful to create a virtual sound card on the Core box, because it it is a Nucleus or ROCK box that doesn’t allow running other software, it sits in a closet where nobody see it, and it doesn’t have a user interface (display, keyboard, mouse).
If I’m going to run some third party software with it’s own user interface, it will have to run on my Remote (iPad, laptop, whole) and then feed the sognalback to the Core which processes it (format translation, DSP…) and then distributes it out to the Endpoint (which is typically not the same as the Remote). This distributed architecture is central to Roon’s value proposition, it wouldn’t be interesting to add a feature that works in only a limited set of configurations.
Streaming into Roon the same way Tidal and Qobuz are integrated is great, but that requires cooperation from the service.
What a shame – much of the most exciting music is on Soundcloud. Does the limit hold for those of us who actually pay Soundcloud monthly (like Tidal and Qobuz)? Could Roon integrate paid Soundcloud?
Looks like you replied to a year+ old thread… MixCloud and SoundCloud have been requested. I think SoundCloud has a play limit on their API. I have never seen a Roon reply about Mixcloud.
See also this thread which started on both Mixcloud and SoundCloud, but then went to a strictly SoundCloud discussion. I don’t know if @danny has looked into Mixcloud.