Roon Integrates nugs’ 30,000-Show Live Concert Archive

The integration unlocks access to more than 30,000 professionally recorded live shows, spanning artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Pearl Jam, Billy Strings, Dead & Company and hundreds more. For Roon users, the catalogue now sits alongside local libraries and other streaming services within the platform’s unified interface.

Founded nearly three decades ago, nugs has built its reputation around delivering official soundboard recordings of live concerts, often appearing online shortly after a performance ends. The service has long been popular among fans of touring artists whose performances evolve from night to night.

Brad Serling, founder and CEO of nugs, commented on the development:

At nugs, we’ve always believed that live music deserves the same quality recording as any studio release. Partnering with Roon takes that vision to the next level. Together we’re bringing our library of legendary live performances into an environment designed for true music fans, where they can browse, discover, organise and enjoy their shows alongside the rest of their music, with unparalleled playback quality and flexibility.

With the new partnership, those recordings can now be streamed directly through Roon’s playback engine to the platform’s extensive network of supported devices, including Roon Ready components, AirPlay, Chromecast and Sonos systems.

For existing nugs subscribers, the service’s concert archive is effectively folded into Roon’s browsing and discovery environment. Performances appear on artist pages and can be queued alongside studio albums, personal music files, and other streaming services in Roon’s interface.

To mark the launch, the companies are offering a 60-day free trial of nugs Hi-Res alongside Roon’s trial program. The promotion also includes access to Qobuz for the same period, creating a combined catalogue that spans more than 100 million studio tracks alongside tens of thousands of live recordings.

For listeners who value the dynamics and spontaneity of live performances, the partnership effectively places an enormous concert archive alongside studio releases within Roon’s listening environment — turning a hi-fi system into something a little closer to a front-row seat.

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