I know Salk Stream Player can be Roon endpoint but does Salk Stream Player support HQPlayer?
The short answer is no. From a hardware perspective, it certainly could. But HQPlayer will only run on one flavor of Linux - Ubuntu. Jussi (HQPlayer's author) doesn't wish to support any other Linux distribution. What's more, it requires a full graphical interface.
We built our Linux package up from scratch and only added code required for the tasks at hand. So there is no graphical user interface or tons of other applications that are useless for this particular task.
We could do a special version of the StreamPlayer with Ubuntu instead. This is very doable and we have discussed this with individuals before. And Roon does support HQPlayer in this scenario. But if there is an issue down the line, we aren't in a position to support that particular setup. And something tells me that issues down the line are definitely not out of the realm of possibility.
So, if we built a special version for a customer who wanted HQPlayer, and we certainly could, the risk involved, however small, would be the customer's. We just can't be assured that Jussi will support further development of this combination of hardware and software and don't want to risk having upset customers if the combination does not perform as it should.
I hope that makes sense.
- Jim