Roon - Non existing support

[Doodski]

@Kal Rubinson
@Joachim Gerhard

OK, I just looked at my Roon library:

315 artists, 1386 albums, 26113 tracks. I have no idea if that is considered a small, medium, or large Roon library.

I considered my 3080 track library to be really cool. Now I know. LoL.

 

[Billy Budapest]

I considered my 3080 track library to be really cool. Now I know. LoL.

As they say, it’s not the size that matters.

 

[JoachimStrobel]

Not quite. They sell fanless boxes. Not as easy as putting a noisy NUC in your living room. Also the markup is far from what is common in the high end audio field. You are (literaly) free to install their flavour of linux on a NUC they specify.

My fanless box is 250€.

 

[Joachim Herbert]

My fanless box is 250€.

That sounds great. I would really appreciate a link where I can buy one at that price assembled with warranty and Intel i5/i7 or comparable CPU.

 

[khensu]

@Kal Rubinson
@Joachim Gerhard

OK, I just looked at my Roon library:

315 artists, 1386 albums, 26113 tracks. I have no idea if that is considered a small, medium, or large Roon library.

I’d say that puts you in the medium category (my library is about 50,000 tracks, which seems kind of average from what I’ve seen).

 

[khensu]

As they say, it’s not the size that matters.

So true. I have a lot of stuff I’ve never listened to and probably never will. They’ve been collected over many years, and not always by me.

 

[Galliardist]

If you have a QNAP, Synology, or Asustor NAS, you can do away with using a NUC or other PC entirely and instead run Roon Server directly on the NAS.

That requires a NAS with Intel (x64) processor. My QNAP has an ARM processor so no chance.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

OK, I just looked at my Roon library:
315 artists, 1386 albums, 26113 tracks. I have no idea if that is considered a small, medium, or large Roon library.

I would consider it medium but the numbers, themselves, are the point. Roon does provide some guidance as to what is needed for such a library.

 

[Billy Budapest]

I would consider it medium but the numbers, themselves, are the point. Roon does provide some guidance as to what is needed for such a library.

Sure. My experience has been that my Asustor NAS is perfectly capable of running Roon Server for a library of this size. No need for a NUC, Nucleus, ROCK, or a PC. Less network complexity and one less point of failure.

 

[Billy Budapest]

That requires a NAS with Intel (x64) processor. My QNAP has an ARM processor so no chance.

True.

 

[JoachimStrobel]

My fanless box is 250€.

This is what I use

https://amzn.eu/d/0w1X0ic

May not be what you want, sells for 250€ in sales.

 

[Billy Budapest]

This will depend on library size. Does not work for me.

So I am just curious, how large a library are you talking?