Does Roon 2.0 require an always-on Internet connection? - Darko.Audio

Last week we published a video astir Roon 2.0 and its all-new accompanying app, Arc, that enables Roon streaming extracurricular of the home: astatine the office, connected the bid oregon – my favourite – astatine the java shop. But determination would beryllium a wrinkle: the ensuing YouTube comments conception chatter was lightly peppered with grumbles astir Roon 2.0 requiring the beingness of a functioning Internet transportation to watercourse not conscionable from Tidal and Qobuz but besides section files. In my case, that meant 3TB of FLAC sitting connected a hard thrust straight connected to a Roon Nucleus+.

Surely these commenters had it wrong? From Roon 2.0’s merchandise notes: “Roon Core requires progressive net [sic] connection” — 1 mightiness reasonably work this arsenic restating the evident for Tidal and/or Qobuz users. Nevertheless, I thought it prudent to trial retired my YouTube commenters’ complaints. I pulled the Internet cablegram from the partition and fto Roon 2.0 play from my section library. And play it did. For 5 hours (by which clip I needed to get backmost online). Claims disproven, lawsuit closed?

Not truthful fast.

Smouldering implicit connected Roon’s ain assemblage pages was a three-week-old 🔥 thread astir this precise topic, successful which immoderate users reported arsenic I had recovered – that an Internet outage did thing to section record playback – whilst others claimed Roon 2.0 was crapping retired aft little than an hour. Time to get connected the phone. Picking up astatine the different extremity was Roon Labs COO Danny Dulai who explained cautiously that Roon 2.0 promises “zero minutes” of offline playback for section files. “You’ll astir apt get much but we can’t warrant that — truthful zero minutes is what we’re saying (or you determination to 1.8 Legacy)”. How Roon got to this constituent entails a longer mentation which I item successful the follow-up above.

The takeaway from my two-hour telephone telephone with Dulai is that helium and his squad person already done the maths: that less existing users volition discontinue Roon (because of 2.0’s determination to an always-on Internet connection) than volition articulation for Arc’s distant streaming functionality oregon arsenic yet chartless bundle smarts coming down the pike, enabled by a displacement to unreality computing.

🎥 Camera: Olaf von Voss
🎬 Editor: John Darko
🕺🏻 Motion GFX: John Darko
💰 Ad segment: Jana Dagdagan

🛋 My listening country successful 2022:
https://darko.audio/darkos-listening-room-2022/

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Further information: Roon Labs

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A abbreviated movie astir Roon ROCK
📺 https://darko.audio/2021/02/a-short-film-about-roon-rock/

10 much thoughts connected Roon ROCK + Intel NUC
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Roon hardware requirements
📖 https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/faq-what-are-the-minimum-requirements

Roon TV Remote app
🛒 https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tv-remote/id1517897247?uo=2

Roon 2.0 merchandise notes
📖 https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-2-0-20-sep-2022-is-live/213418

Roon 2.0 and net connectivity
🗣 https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-2-0-and-internet-connectivity/215464

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