Why can't I stay with 1.6 if it is stable and I like it? Why I'm obliged to migrate to 1.7 if I don't want?

[garym]

Roon requires an internet connection to “call home” at least once every 3 or 4 weeks. See below what they say would happen if Roon shuts down.

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.