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Your experience being the reverse of mine is perplexing and hence very interesting. There is no question my QNAP is working fine, as is Tom's (Zebedee99) but I only tried my Ensemble as a Meridian core. When I get a moment I'll set up another piece of Meridian kit as the core and see what happens.

@AdamAJP,

It's annoying as is anything that stops working but you do have an option you can use immediately.

Your MC200 is the only piece of kit at risk of obsolescence here. Your 818 will keep running just fine with Roon and Tidal if that is such a major issue right now.

You can do that on a trial basis for 30 days while you wait for further info from HQ.

You can then make an informed decision in due course.

PS I certainly would not be buying a QNAP now in the hope that it might work and importantly continue to work. I think the odds are stacked against that happening despite what some are finding right now.

Please speak to us

The MC200 we can do some work to make it run Roon.

It has to come back to us to do it, but we have a kit we have made to use reuse the MC200 as a Roon core.

Regards
Edd

Just curious

Does it also allow the MC200 to run as an Roon audio endpoint using the internal audio card?

I only recently got rid of my MC200, and was looking to transform it into a Roon device, but the audio card was always the sticking point. It would be great for those with the MC200 if it could be repurposed with the same audio capabilities as the Sooloos version without having to shoehorn in another audio device.
Another nice touch, wish it had been sold as part of Sooloos itself, would be to enable standard USB audio.

You loose the audio endpoint.

But a lot of customers seem to be using MC200’s with other end points.

However if you were not only running a MC200 there are options we can put on the table.

Regards
Edd

I think it would be dangerous to infer that there is something special about the Sooloos software on QNAP devices; I certainly wouldn't base a purchase decision on a couple of data points.

Schroedinger’s cat!

A dealer just PM'd me to say that he has clients with QNAP Sooloos cores who have reported that TIDAL is broken for them.

You have a PM

cheers!

I wonder whether those QNAPs that are having problems with Tidal were set up long ago (and not updated to 4.3.x firmware) or, in complete contrast, set up rather recently. The only thing I know about my and Tom's QNAPs, which both work with Tidal, is that they are both on 4.3.x firmware (though his is a slightly later version than mine).

Joel: am I right in thinking there is a Roon version for QNAPs with x86 processors? If so, getting a QNAP would not be so dangerous as one could always switch to Roon if that became absolutely necessary. I expect that, as a Roon developer, you would like us all to switch immediately, but please allow those of us who like the old horses a fighting chance and not frighten those horses too much!

I don't know whether this actually answers your question but I have Roon running as core on a QNAP 'Silent NAS' with no problems. I also have my library stored on it as well.
Just need to make sure that you have sufficient RAM in the QNAP to run the core ideally min. 4GB.

Rod

Yes, there is a RoonServer package for QNAP, but be warned: you need a FAR more powerful QNAP than one which will run Sooloos.

See this Roon Knowledge Base article.

Personally, I think that NAS devices have had their day and a NAS is certainly not a route I would entertain myself or recommend to anyone. I retired mine years ago and replaced it with several (single 8TB drive) WD My Passport units: one is directly attached to my NUC and this is backed up to the other two whenever I add some more local music (not often). The moment I get an Internet connection with a decent upload speed, I am seriously considering putting my music in the Cloud and streaming it from there.

If I had to make a non-Nucleus recommendation, it would be ROCK on an 8th gen i3 Intel NUC (which is considerably more able than my 6yo i5 NUC, so I wouldn't get hung up on i3 vs. i5 vs. i7), but I accept that this requires some technical knowledge. That said, there is plenty of support here and over on Roon's Community forum if that's a route that takes your fancy.

But there are many many ways of installing Roon; just make sure the hardware is suitably spec'd (SSD, processor, memory).

As for Sooloos to Roon conversions, if and when they happen, they are of course very welcome, but -- and not wanting to sound arrogant or complacent (we are neither) -- our reach has been way beyond the Sooloos user base for a very long time.