setup of Roon/Air on non-dedicated PC

[GuillaumeB]

Ok, if you use AIR and have it enabled, than all audio output is redirected to AIR. So to the best of my knowledge, you cannot stream to AIR and also send audio output to another source (i.e. USB) at the same time.

Someone please correct me if am wrong....

With AIR acting like a audio device most definitely we can not have a non-dedicated PC playing multiple roles of streaming different sources to separate audio devices.  My ignorance of AIR was it allowed the ROON server to link to the Devialet (which I'm guessing the Streaming board will support once we have it) unlike Kazoo.

Oh well back to using Linn Kazoo server software serving to the Akurate.  Its still an excellent streaming environment and does not affect my local user activities.  It plays well with all display devices, Android phone, iPad, PC's via Kinsky.  

Thank you
Jim

Hi Jim,

I am pretty sure the new streamer board won't support ROON. It should however do UPnP, removing the need for the Akurate DS.

Now whether you'll be able to use Kinsky as you currently do is anyone's guess. This would need Devialet UPnP implementation to support UPnP OpenHome to work properly (i.e. gapless playback etc). So far we haven't had any details of Devialet's UPnP implementation so it's difficult to say. 

By the way why are you running Kazoo server software? I didn't think this was needed for Kinsky, just for the Kazoo control point? Or is this so that you can scan iTunes libraries on your PC? Have you tried Kazoo control point software?

Guillaume