My Preliminary Experience With Roon and why I went all in!

[MadFloyd]

Well I didn't get too far. I got a fatal error immediately saying something about Open GL drivers or my video card not being supported. It wasn't very helpful.

 

[Brucemck2]

Roon has a terrific user/library interface.

Will either JPLAY or HQPlayer support VST plugins?

I will switch to Roon when I can get ASIO with VST plugin support. The J River WDM driver approach works, but is not fully reliable in my setup.

 

[MadFloyd]

Well I didn't get too far. I got a fatal error immediately saying something about Open GL drivers or my video card not being supported. It wasn't very helpful.

Update: Roon doesn't like launching via remote desktop. I was able to get past this via a clever workaround. It's an interesting app. There are lots of things I like about it and a few minor things I don't but given that it's in it's infancy, it does look promising.

 

[isquirrel]

Update: Roon doesn't like launching via remote desktop. I was able to get past this via a clever workaround. It's an interesting app. There are lots of things I like about it and a few minor things I don't but given that it's in it's infancy, it does look promising.

I have the same error with Remote Desktop, can you please share your workaround?

 

[MadFloyd]

I have the same error with Remote Desktop, can you please share your workaround?

Sure, happy to help.

Conceptually what you want to do is run a script on the remote pc that will terminate your remote connection, wait a second (to be sure you're no longer connected) and fire up Roon.

Here's how you do it:

1. Create a .bat file somewhere on the remote PC hard drive (anywhere but the desktop)
a. To do this, right click and pick NEW then TEXT DOCUMENT
b. copy and paste the following into this new document:

tscon.exe 1 /DEST:console /v
timeout 1
Start C:\Users\default.CAPSv3\AppData\Local\Roon\Application\Roon.exe

Note that you will have to change the 3rd line (especially the bolded part) to point to wherever your roon.exe file is located.

c. save the file and exit
d. rename the file to be "roon.bat"

2. Right click on this new "roon.bat" file and choose SEND TO then DESKTOP (create shortcut)
3. On your desktop you'll now have a shortcut file. Right click on this and choose PROPERTIES. If you're not in the SHORTCUT tab, select it.
4. Click on the ADVANCED tab and put a checkmark in the RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR option.

Now when you double click on this shortcut (on your desktop) it will end your remote desktop connection, wait a second, and launch Roon. Give it a few seconds then remote desktop back in and you should see it up and running and you're good to go.

Let me know if you have any issues.

 

[isquirrel]

I connected a monitor, keyboard etc and ran through the install and it failed with this error

 

[MadFloyd]

I connected a monitor, keyboard etc and ran through the install and it failed with this error

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The only suggestion I have is updating your OpenGL drivers.

 

[bonzo75]

Want to follow the thread, interested in knowing when HQP gets integrated with Roon

 

[Marcin_gps]

Roon has a terrific user/library interface.

Will either JPLAY or HQPlayer support VST plugins?

I will switch to Roon when I can get ASIO with VST plugin support. The J River WDM driver approach works, but is not fully reliable in my setup.

JPLAY does not support VST directly, but can be selected as output in ROON. If you'd like to use VST with JPLAY, you can do that in foobar2000.

Cheers,
Marcin

 

[Priaptor]

Sure, happy to help.

Conceptually what you want to do is run a script on the remote pc that will terminate your remote connection, wait a second (to be sure you're no longer connected) and fire up Roon.

Here's how you do it:

1. Create a .bat file somewhere on the remote PC hard drive (anywhere but the desktop)
a. To do this, right click and pick NEW then TEXT DOCUMENT
b. copy and paste the following into this new document:

tscon.exe 1 /DEST:console /v
timeout 1
Start C:\Users\default.CAPSv3\AppData\Local\Roon\Application\Roon.exe

Note that you will have to change the 3rd line (especially the bolded part) to point to wherever your roon.exe file is located.

c. save the file and exit
d. rename the file to be "roon.bat"

2. Right click on this new "roon.bat" file and choose SEND TO then DESKTOP (create shortcut)
3. On your desktop you'll now have a shortcut file. Right click on this and choose PROPERTIES. If you're not in the SHORTCUT tab, select it.
4. Click on the ADVANCED tab and put a checkmark in the RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR option.

Now when you double click on this shortcut (on your desktop) it will end your remote desktop connection, wait a second, and launch Roon. Give it a few seconds then remote desktop back in and you should see it up and running and you're good to go.

Let me know if you have any issues.

Another very easy way is to identify the "startup" folder in your system, just place a roon shortcut in there and it will launch automatically. Once it is launched no issue connecting via Remote Desktop.

This will all be moot when they release their headless version.