Streaming input port on the core

[IanM (Ian Medland)]

The Use Case is that I might want to play alternative streaming sources to my Roon end point which doesn’t support the requested protocol (for example, a Sooloos endpoint doesn’t act as an AirPort speaker). Rather than having Roon support the protocol directly (which might involve licence / questionable legality) the core could have a generic RTSP/RTP or HTTP input port which is available when nothing else is being played. From there you could have another application act as a protocol converter which makes the Roon playback pipe available to other clients.

This is sort-of like IP radio except the core is passive and an external client asks to use the playout pipe.

Make sense?
Ian

[qdtjni (Johan N)]

is there already some way one can use analog source (with ADC), or digital for that matter, to be streamed through Roon?

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

I spoke about this here:

Roon as an output channel for other sources? Ugh, but maybe

When we, as the Sooloos team, were acquired by Meridian back in 2008, we proposed this exact product. We called it “the input device” – for example, take your record player’s analog output and route it around your home, and zone group it, etc… basically take telephony (point to point wires) and network it (packetize + route). As you can see, that project went nowhere because we never could get our acquirers to move on such weird hardware. With Roon, it makes even more sense. There is a realtime…

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

This would be one way for users to send Spotify, Quobuz etc. to a RAAT based home distribution without implementing Tidal like integration.