Roon. Has it improved?

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#323179 3-Nov-2025 15:09

I last gave a look at this just before plague times and it was pretty meh and poorly performing, but I see a lot of reviews from back then saying the same things and it wouldnt have lasted if it was still bad.

Is anyone using this on a large music library. Since I have "resumed sailing" since the demise of the days of what, my collection has grown by an order of magnitude and the inbuilt foobar library is now at the point where its taking minuits to open and its outcompeting chrome for how much ram it can consume.

So has anyone got a decent library working in it on rather pedestrian hardware (8th gen, 32 gigs) and see that the server part works ok? It will probably take the entirity of the 14 day trial to index stuff if its anything like the speed foobar2000 does it.

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#3430602 3-Nov-2025 19:59

We are not looking very good.

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#3430609 3-Nov-2025 21:02

hi,

I have been using roon for the last couple of years without any issue. My library is about 900G of FLAC files. I run the roon server on linux container on proxmox with 8Gb RAM on a ZFS volume. 2 vCPUs assigned from an 8600G AMD CPU.

I use an Eversolo streamer to play on the hifi, but I am not using any DSP.

I do have some issues with roon ARC(Mobile app to play music on the go), but never had issues with roon itself.

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#3430610 3-Nov-2025 21:07

I was going to reply 'it works for me' but I checked - I am using 'moode'.

FWIW moode serves on RPi3 hardware just fine , from a SMB share.

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#3430614 3-Nov-2025 21:45

cychronz:

hi,

I have been using roon for the last couple of years without any issue. My library is about 900G of FLAC files. I run the roon server on linux container on proxmox with 8Gb RAM on a ZFS volume. 2 vCPUs assigned from an 8600G AMD CPU.

I killed its processes and it seemed to crap the bed with its database totally, so I have left it alone for a while and its now pulled in the tidal library and I have added back a couple of folders - in this case my SACD rips as they cant be played to my wiim with their solutions and its so far working of on the separate files but not touching the iso's that foobar is quite happy to handle. Its not having the problems of before with only a few 10000 of tracks to scan, its behaving. If its all looking ok I will add in some of the 0 day pack folders for it to scan. It might be hitting some corrupted tags on things and bailing but I cant see where it logs any metadata reading failures to deal with those files. The secrecy they seem to have about library size that they know it works with and requirements reminds me of the BS behind sonos back when it was a thing made to play local music and not just an overpriced streaming speaker.

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#3441857 9-Dec-2025 00:21

Just thought that I would pop in here that with 128 gig on the most backwards specced machine ($10 celeron CPU with $800 of ram) its scanning and behaving a hell of a lot better. Will probably order another i5 9500 or something to drop in the machine to get it more CPU since that now seems to be a slowing factor for it with the server stopping responding for a bit sometimes, but its not crashing or taking the machine down like it was with only 32 gigs of ram.

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#3449593 4-Jan-2026 13:09

The i5 9600 KF is performing so much better, even tho the 2 core celeron was not maxing out, it seems the extra cores are really helping it with the scanning speed of the library. Settles in pretty soon after launch at about 80 gigs ram in use and its not really going up as it scans.

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