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In Reply to: RE: A "use" case: posted by cfraser on June 23, 2016 at 14:59:22
of LMS and championed it for years. I bought my first SB3 in 2006, then had a Transporter and eventually 3 more SBTs. All are still in service here. I've used it and tweaked it and loaded skins for a Nokia N800 used as a remote among other things over the years, which at the time predated the iphone and any other mobile control for a music server. It was state-of-the-art. But it just isn't anymore.
Roon is where it's at. And will be going forward. And it is $10/month annually, which is less than some people pay for Netflix.
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But Roon doesn't do anything new that I want to do. That is the bottom line. That it isn't limited to a specific type of platform or even listening "style" is its big deal, and will be the reason for much of its popularity.
I would never buy a lifetime subscription to anything. Especially something like this. They'll be owned by somebody else soon enough if they're really that great (as determined by the *real* market, not enthusiasts....see Squeezebox in case studies...), and your "contract" will be essentially worthless. "Lifetime" of the company is what it'll be.
You are as enthusiastic re Roon now as you were re LMS some time ago. That should tell you something. I am "old", so don't mind me, just reminding you of what you already know.
I wasn't trying to infer *you* didn't know LMS, I was being tongue in cheek, it is typical of lots of Logitech stuff re virtually useless documentation beyond the absolute beginner level.
is that it provides a very usable front-end for HQPlayer. That is my primary reason for using it, because HQP really does sound better than anything else I've used. And by a long-measure. It makes some older cds I used to think unlistenable absolute treats. One example: Bruce Hornsby & the Range, The Way it Is. Flat, strident and nearly unlistenable for all those years.
I take your point about the lifetime sub; in this case its a gamble against will I buy more than 4 annual subs or just make one $500 purchase. If the company lasts more than 5 years, I saved money.
Thanks for being reasonable to different POVs (no small thing sometimes...).
I am sure very many people have very many excellent reasons for using Roon. I just don't happen to be one of those people. I don't do any transcoding (only native format [via FLAC] of my own discs), and am anal about tagging and bloat my FLACs with info (sometimes pics) I might want to know/see, tag stuff my own way so *I* can find it in my own strange way, etc. Maybe when I have a DAC that can play all the fancier formats I'll have a different opinion...
And being in Canada, the U.S. disc covers are often not the same as those here, and I often pick by the cover I'm used to (I scan all the covers myself to make sure). Plus I often have different disc versions of the same title and the ones I want to play are often quite obscure, hard to find any info even at discogs = manual entry for a large part.
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