Synology DSM7

Please be aware, that most Synology Diskstations are below the recommended specification. It depends on your use case: Roon offers some cpu intensive features, such as audio upsampling, room correction and other digital signal processing tasks. If you would like to use these features, stream to multiple zones simultaneously or have a large library, the CPU of your diskstation might not be powerful enough.

If you are unsure, if your diskstation is capable of handling your setup, the best way to ensure this, to just give it a try.

Roon Labs hardware recommendation can be read here.

Requirements:

• Intel x64 or compatible CPU
• DSM 7

Recommended:

• An intel i3 – i7 cpu
• SSD storage for Roon Server’s database
  • in internal disk bay
  • connected via USB or eSATA

Appendix: Adding support for additional audio codecs (like AAC…)

Roon Server relies on ffmpeg for different audio codecs. Synology has a preinstalled ffmpeg binary already preinstalled on their system. Unfortunately it does not cover all audio codecs, that are required for Roon Server and due to licensing uncertainty, I am not able to have it bundled in the installation.

However I have implemented a way to provide it manually. Binaries of ffmpeg can be downloaded from JohnVanSickles website. You’ll need the amd64 version for Roon Server on the diskstation.

Extract the tar.xz archive and copy the ffmpeg from the extracted files folder into

<< Your selected database location >> / RoonOnNAS / bin

Then restart Roon Server in the package center.