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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
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mrmb
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I've been running a Roon, ROCK, Intel NUC 11 (11PAHi7), with a 20TB USB HD, a 500GB SSD, 32GB of memory and a >200k library 24/7, for over 3-yrs., minus a single hiccup.  I use it for my 2-channel EMM Labs DAC audio room and to distribute multi-room music to a Marantz AV pre-pro based HT and to 3-Audio Pro A10 WiiM wi-fi speakers.  For my purposes, Roon just works!

I should have added that I have Roon's DSP functions disabled.  

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@audiopacer 

Yep same thing with jplay here - failure to start a song. Can’t deal with these annoyances 

pgaulke60 OP
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@mdalton I think you could be totally correct.  It is old.  Though I upgraded the memory, it did nothing for the processing speed. My internal SSD has lots of files on it, but not as much as some have mentioned here.

I am seriously looking at the SonicTransporter from Small Green Computer.  Unfortunately, they won’t be at Axpona this year.

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audphile1
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I have a Samsung SSD mounted inside the Nucleus One. My database contains

albums = 2700

Tracks = 30,300

Roon states Nucleus One handles up to 10,000 albums (100,000 tracks). So I’m nowhere near the capacity.
 

I do not use DSP and I have 

Background Audio Analysis Speed = Throttled

On-Demand Audio Analysis Speed = Off

I never power the Nucleus One down - it runs 24/7. I now noticed better performance after a hard reboot. And as of last night I started shutting it down. 
I want to eliminate heat, memory issues and overburdening the processor unnecessarily to see if it makes any difference n

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mdalton
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Honestly, it’s just a computer for you to run Roon on, so I wouldn’t let not “hearing” it at Axpona prevent you from pulling the trigger if that’s the direction you want to go. I misspoke previously. Roon only started making its own servers 8 years ago, but SGC has been providing servers to run Roon for 10 years.  And of course, you get way more processing power per dollar spent going the SGC route than Roon hardware. 

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