Description
Roon Overview
Roon is a workstation for playing music. It consists of several key elements, each of which is a combination of standard hardware and a special software environment.
Roon Features
1. Core (Roon Core). This is a regular laptop or Windows or Mac PC, the one you use to work or have fun at home, but with Roon software installed. This is very clever software that is not limited to start/stop/rewind buttons, displaying an album picture or connecting to the TIDAL Internet service. It has its own music metadata storage, music suggestion “artificial intelligence”, a software digital signal processor, a resampler, a crossfeed headphone surround processor, and much more. Upon user request, Roon provides full information about how a music file is processed on its way through Roon to the playback device.
In addition to Windows and Mac, Roon Core can be installed on other platforms, such as Linux, on a NAS (network attached storage) or on a specialized NUC-type server with Roon OS.
Roon Core is paid software that is distributed on an annual subscription basis.
2. Remote. This is a remote control program. It runs on Windows, OS X or macOS hardware, as well as on Apple and Android mobile devices as a mobile application, from where it controls the core on any platform. The base microcode for all remote control applications is identical, so it works the same on all operating systems.
The remote also controls all AirPlay-compatible audio devices. The software is free, and multiple remote controls can control one core.
3. Output or endpoint. Roon’s output can be “loaded” to a Roon Ready audio device (a media player or other network (LAN) device). Roon Ready means that
– the device is connected to a local network (via Wi-Fi or Ethernet LAN);
– the device’s firmware contains the standard Roon microcode (RAAT SDK) for exchanging information with the Roon Remote and the Roon Core server.
The Roon Ready certificate is issued by Roon to audio equipment manufacturers that have met these requirements. The Roon Ready certificate guarantees bit-perfect playback of music content received via the Roon Core.
Multiple outputs can be connected to one core. This is the software-based multi-room or multi-zone sound system.
Additional information : In this version, all streaming services (Tidal, Qobuz), adding radio stations and searching through the media library do not work
. The assembly is used only as a local player. The distribution includes versions for Windows (x64), macOS (x64, arm), linux (x64), ROCK (CSM and UEFI), Synology NAS (DSM6, DSM7), Android (client .apk).
That’s all. There will be no versions for other platforms (Qnap…)/architectures (x86, arm…).
Installation
Install Roon by running RoonInstaller64. After installation, do not run the program and exit.
Then run the patcher RoonInstaller64_patcher and wait for the patch to be installed successfully.
Versions for other OS are already patched. They only need to be installed.
File Information
Year/Release Date : 2024
Version : 2.0 Build 1470
Developer : Roonlabs
Developer’s website : roonlabs.com
Bit depth : 64bit
Interface language : Multilingual
Tablet : present
System Requirements
Windows 10+ (64-bit), macOS 10.14+