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  1. We have a final production release ready to go! We are putting final touches on the website and will launch on Tuesday in New York when everyone is up and ready to support the release.
  2. We have the production release ready and are putting final touches on the website... We will launch in the late morning, New York time!
  3. We synchronize Airplay zones and third party devices running our protocol will synchronize. So it is really easy to have your performance audio, where you might have a great USB DAC or Streamer, and whole home audio under one experience without the headaches of managing mulitple platforms. Multiple users can access the system at the same time, so it is multi user. And the library can watch multiple folders, so music from different users' computers can all end up in one shared experience. The audio output of remote Mac's and PC's can also be used as local zones, so for example your Den PC could access the main library and use its local output. There is a ton of flexibility and power.
  4. The wait will not be long. This is at the top of the list of things to get done... we know that sitting in the sweet spot and browsing Roon from a touch interface cannot be beat and is an ideal scenario. I use a Surface... it is a beautiful thing
  5. Hi Guys... Glad to see some happy beta users! To answer a few questions: - We will launch next week in Munich - DSD will come after launch, but is a tier one feature to be chased immediately. - iOS remote control will come this summer, but Android, Mac, and PC remote control will work at launch. These features are really important, but the Tidal integration was just so awesome that it took precedent. The incredible depth of integration that Tidal has allowed meant an enormous amount of work compared with what we've done in the past with Rhapsody, Deezer, and RDIO. But it also meant an experience that no one has ever had before. It is what we dreamed of 15 years ago.
  6. Yes, absolutely, the software will be available internationally.
  7. Sorry I missed this... Libretto support will not be in the initial release, but it is something we are working on and expect to be a 1.x feature. No timeframe, but it is in the roadmap.
  8. Right now we are shooting for a mid-may launch and will be making some announcements at the Munich Hi Fi show.
  9. The metadata services can definitely be a mixed bag of good and bad. This is where it is good to have true music fans as programmers- one of our programmers actually has degrees in both computer science and jazz performance. Where many music programs will try to deal with everything programmatically, and fail, we often get to the better answer by understanding the musical issue and finding a way to bend the data from among the different sources we are using. It is time consuming, and a constantly moving target, as the services change and evolve their approaches to data and we tweak our approaches to keep up. But this is how we get consistently great results, and we have a decade of experience at it. We don't have data no one else has access to, we just understand it and use it better.
  10. Sorry I've been out of the loop here... it's been a busy few days. You guys seem to have a pretty good handle on a lot of the ideas, so I will just fill in a few things... We are using AMG data, but we also aggregate data from other sources. We browse by albums as a default, since that is the unit people buy, but we start at files, and then look for lots of data- album info, artist info, performers, composers, production credits, lyrics... a ton of stuff- and then build from there. Keep in mind, we are truly a database app, not a folder tree app that knows about certain kinds of tags and lets you pivot on them. It is far more powerful than anything you are using now.
  11. And for those of you asking about classical, here is another video [video=youtube_share;bmf00DrTak4]
  12. There was a small change made to the first teaser, here it is again... [video=youtube_share;5dlawHfO8sM]
  13. The relationship of remotes and a Roon library is pretty simple and seamless. You will install the Roon Labs app on on a computer somewhere in your home and tell it where all your music is in the home. It will build the database out of all those files and this becomes "Roon" in your home. The app on this computer will recognize system sound, usb, pci, airplay or roonspeakers devices (this is our protocol, like airplay, but made for performance audio, in doing high res and clocking from the the destination device, not the sending pc.) You will select which of these you want to be available as Zones in Roon. Roon can now act as a self-contained system of the Roon app, the Roon library, the computer, and the audio devices. To go a step further, you can tell your Roon to accept remote control and then install the app on other devices throughout the home and access your Roon remotely from Mac, PC, iOS and Android. From here you pick which Roon zone(s) you want to control, browse music, and play. This works for multiple users at the same time. If a device is acting as a remote at home (say your laptop) and you go on the road, you can go to settings, and tell it to act as Roon and build a library of your files on the device or your Tidal subscription. Then when you get home, you can make it a remote again. Roon is very, very powerful in this respect.
  14. Yes, identifying by filenames/tracklength is part of what we do. A giant pile of "track 01's" in a folder is not something we can help you with, but any sanely built collection will be very happily scanned and identified. As for audiophile performance, yes you can expect playback to be up to audiophile standards. As for the browser performance in a large collection... well, let's just say that big collections are, and always have been, our thing. With the usual caveats of having enough ram, etc to deal with a given collection size and not having a terrible network, addressing large collections is an area of expertise for Roon. This entire endeavor was born of trying to deal with a 10,000 album collection all the way back in 2000, and was built around the thought exercise of "what would you do if you had all the music in the world?"... how would you explore it, how would you intreract with it, how would you find meaning in it? So, yes... big collections are not a problem.
  15. We are not relying on the names as our primary identifier, so if you are appending information to the names, we should identify it. We have a pretty elegant new solution to the mind-bending issues of presenting duplicates in the interface, and I think you will probably be as excited about it as we are.
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