I can connect to my nvidia shield from my roon pc with chromecast
Works fine on Roon, the client includes the server, you just need to enable local audio output or the WASAPI driver for the USB device.
Not a terribly good use of Roon, but it’s no harder to use in that way than any other player software.
Software like this is pretty much only sustainable if you can get additional payments from you existing users. No company can offer software upgrades in perpetuity when there is a limit to the size of their userbase.
Roon charging a monthly fee means there is a good chance they will still be there in a few years, they also have central servers they have to pay for.
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Damn, that sucks. Are roon backups typically unreliable?
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No, it looks like it is a known issue. You cannot upload a backup from a different account. Fortunately, I am back up and running.
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The Roon backups offer little other than the history and algorithm improvements gained over time about your listening habits. They don’t really “back up” your library just your utilization.
Even starting from scratch it would take no more than a couple of hours to catalogue your library from scratch on a decent PC.
I would be bummed though losing my history.
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it will back up your playlists and favorites, and the biggest thing for me is it will back up any manual changes you make to metadata within the app for specific artists and albums such as artist merging, custom artist photos, and the odd tagging mishap where the file metadata is preferred to roon. these are things that cannot be redone in a timely manner.
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True, I am militant about my metadata and having ripped/organized everything during Covid, I don’t get a lot of value from it but there’s a hell of a lot of value for people that are pretty loose with their library.
One thing I have found, which is the ONLY complaint I have of Roon, is that it their album images are not of the highest quality.
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Does it also back up all your settings and what not? How about the dates when all the music was added?
yes/yes
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it should yes, to my understanding it should almost be like a snapshot of the state of your roon install at the time of backup
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That’s been my experience, I changed servers twice with Roon, and just restored from the backup, as far as I can tell I lost nothing.
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Not much discussion here of late but I am curious as to whether or not any of you got caught up in the Room database corruption issue over Christmas.
Don’t have a clue as to why any company would plan a MAJOR upgrade that involved redoing people’s database would be released on Christmas eve!
I didn’t see an issue, and not really up on what the details were but apparently I was spared. It worked for me fine the first go around, but I knew there was trouble when another update was released just days later.
Hopefully you guys got through it okay as well.
i didn’t have any issue, but then again I do more than 90% of my Roon streaming via Qobuz and Tidal. Almost nothing with a local library.
My database was spared luckily 
Usually a biproduct of trying to hit “end of year targets”. we shipped! and we shitted all over our customers… excellent…
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Roon has been very boring for me over the last 6 months. It has just worked. Which is great, not complaining at all. I got over the interface redesign after a couple weeks, and I like more of it now than I used to. I’m hoping for some new feature releases this next year to keep it from being just a network streaming interface for me.
My database was fine, it stopped recognizing some of my WiFi devices, but it magically repaired itself later, I suspect after it finally finished the database upgrade.
The issue appears to have been that Roon added a database integrity check during the upgrade and before a backup, the databases were already corrupt which is why some people couldn’t recover from backups.
If I were doing that, I’d at least provide database recovery options for the corrupt databases, they clearly were mostly intact, or users wouldn’t have been able to use them.
I’ve built databases as a part of my jobs over the years (as in actual databases, not just using one) and short of catastrophic hardware failures, they can’t corrupt anything, usually what’s corrupt is the data stored by the application, so it’s all on Roon.
I see it a lot in applications written by developers, who just ignore the fact that things can fail, and don’t plan for it.
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I didn’t have any issues. My library is mostly local FLAC files. Search seems to be marginally better but still not great.
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Had no issues at all with the updates.
Now that I’ve said this…
Now that you mention it, my database did fail to recover from a backup (moved everything to a new comp). Had to start all over, but it wasn’t that big of a deal for my library in particular.