Any comments about using ROON while you are OFF LINE ??
Good Evening,
I understand Roon is meant for a home network that also has internet access for relevant data to your songs, album art, whatever, as well as new songs from streaming services.
I am asking have you ever tried using Roon while your internet is down? Does it still work fine with your own music that you have stored on the server? Does it still provide relevant information to support those songs? (I am thinking maybe it stores that info from the last time you played the same song?) Or would you say that with no internet, the usefulness of Roon goes out the window entirely?
Reason for asking, if i buy a lifetime Roon license and then decide to shut off my internet some years in the future after the price of internet goes up to $200/mo. how stupid would that be? Really, really stupid, or just a bit stupid? haha.
Thank you for your comments.
You should still be able to play locally stored music without Internet access. However, without Internet access your Roon core won’t be able to retrieve the metadata that provides much of the Roon experience. Obviously streaming services, Roon updates, etc. will not be available. |
The newest release (2.x) of Roon looks for an Internet connection and won’t run reliably without it. You can verify that by checking the Roon forum, where you will find a minority of users up in arms about that. It doesn’t matter enough to me for me to have an opinion. Also, that is documented on this page. Those who say it should work are, I'm sorry to say, ill informed. If you are thinking of disconnecting, Roon would not be a good choice, especially a lifetime subscription. Something like JRiver would be better. |
