What is the limiter for the number of tracks in ROON?

[philr]

See these discussions.

Suggested hardware

It feels like the answer to most “will it work?” questions is going to be “It’ll work, but it won’t be as good as it could be”, because lets be honest, no-one is going to wonder whether a Mac Pro works flawlessly or not. I want to expand a little bit more to help you guys understand where the tradeoffs are so you can make good hardware decisions. As we’ve said above, Roon will run on just about anything vaguely recent. How much hardware you need to get an impeccable experience depends on how yo…

My experiences with Rock and a 500k+ tracks library

Hey, @brian et al - I wanted to check in and ask what the current best practices are for setting up a Roon server to handle an abusively large library (640,000 tracks and growing). They may not have changed since the recommendations earlier in this thread, but I thought I should ask fresh before ordering hardware. My home Roon setup (with a moderate 40k tracks in 3100 albums) remains snappy running on an Ubuntu-based server (Haswell-era Xeon, music in a local ZFS pool). But the library at the…