setup of Roon/Air on non-dedicated PC

[Jim_Anderson]

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

Currently on my SOHO computer I have all my music files located on an SSD drive.  I've also setup the Kazoo server polling for Radio Paradise and CBC radio and serving up Tidal.  These are served via Kazoo server software to the networked Akurate DS1.  Kinsky is being used strictly as a song playlist either from the source PC or iPad or any device you load Linn's Kinsky remote onto.  This way my SOHO pc gets to play on youtube and still stream music out to the Akurate.

Through this week I have been able to determine there is a want/need for a dedicated music server, and it looks like there are many options open to me.  My budget will be between 1,500-2000 (cad - or $10 US - damn the currency exchange).  

The Linn configuration does quite well, but I am hearing a difference to running AIR and Roon (I can't seem to find the correct adjectives to describe it yet).  Today, I'm spending several hours on this task of determining just what it is I'm hearing and weight benefits/cost factors with my current Devialet configuration.  I am committed to moving the music off of my SOHO PC so some sort of standalone device is in my future.  Currently Roon and AIR are using an average of 8% CPU usage and less than 500MB of memory, so very little effect on the PC.  Thisi is on an I7 with 64GB memory system. Networking is running from 77kbps to 4.0mbps with some bursts up to 7.7mbps on a 15mbps network..

I will be canvasing for an acceptable dedicated appliance to use to stream files, internet radio, tidal to the Devialet.  Hopefully there's some consensus amongst the group on what options are available.  This could be something I put together myself or an all in one purchasable product.

Hopefully the above makes some sense.
Jim