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Replacing Roon - What Should I get?

I'm tired of Roon having brain farts.  I have an original Roon Nucleus and have updated and augmented the Memory.  This helped for a bit.  But now, I keep having to reboot the darn thing.

It's not my network.  I have checked it out and everything in the house works fine.

Here is the setup.  A direct fiber optic link goes to the Router.  Then ethernet to Roon from the Router.  This way I get Roon to talk with the setup upstairs.  I have an 35 foot ethernet cable that runs through the walls directly from the router into my dCS Lina.

I want to replace the Roon.  I am thinking about an Innuos Stream.  Just need a streamer that can hold Roon/Tidal.  Don't need a DAC as the dCS does that quite well.  I have a SSD in the Nucleus that holds a ton of my music that I want to move over.

Thoughts on what to replace the Roon with?  Innuos (Stream) always get bandied about.  I hear about Arender as well. I don't want to get an updated Roon.

I also wonder about deleting and reinstalling the Roon App on my iPads.

Thanks in Advance

pgaulke60
tuberist
1,006 posts
 

my situation was just like yours. I switched to the JPlay app and lost all that extra hardware required by Roon and got an improvement in sound that I like and software stability. I stream Qobuz through the JPlay app to my Weiss 501 Dac. I get a more natural sound and more definition while I found Roon’s sound to be on the warmer side. I don’t know what streamer you use, but I thought virtually all streamers would do UPNP

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jbuhl
1,110 posts
 

My ROON server is stable on an SGC ST.  Been that way for years.

erik_squires
17,544 posts
 

Why do you need to reboot it? 

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audphile1
7,936 posts
 

You can’t run roon on Aurender which is a Roon endpoint only. 

With dCS Lina you can use dCS Mosaic app to control your streaming. Local library that’s on SSD can be mounted on any computer or even connected to dCS via USB (some artwork will not render most likely). 
If you want another roon core I would recommend understanding the root cause of your current problems to make sue your new Roon core doesn’t trip over these same issues. 
 

crn3371
226 posts
 

If you want to keep using the Roon OS then you’ll need a streamer that has Roon Core functionality, which limits your options. 

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