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In Reply to: RE: New Pi posted by calsaint on April 23, 2017 at 19:28:52
Remind me why everyone seems to dislike Roon?
Its easy to set up, stays set up, and works with everything from raspberry's to kilo buck streamers.
I'm not trying to start an argument Other than not working with Spotify or Qobuz I honestly don't know why.
Steve
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but I'm guessing folks don't like to pay money to use software that doesn't work with the services they subscribe to.
Especially if the free stuff works with the services they subscribe to AND sound just a good.
I have nothing against ROON. I have heard side by side comparisons and found the sound quality no better than JRiver (which I also don't use).
For me, PcP is fine for streaming TIDAL and QOBUZ to my easy chair, plus it will play music stored on the hard drive of my main system.
And for my main system, a headless Mac Mini running iTunes (free) with Bit Perfect ($10) has yet to be beaten for sound quality by anything else I have tried.
Plus the Mac Mini, being a real computer, with run just about anything.
What am I missing?
With PcP, do you use the Tidal and Qobuz websites to navigate? I find Tidal pretty awful, but for me Roon makes it manageable.
I do like the metadata aspect...I am discovering lots of music because of it....so for me Roon is worth the financial upgrade over iTunes.
Tidal and QOBUZ are less than perfect for search purposes but I have learned over time how to find things I wish to hear on both.
I do wish TIDAL used the music label as a search term as QOBUZ does. Search with most music services is pretty much a product of the tags provided by the record label/publisher when they send the file to the service.
I find that if I can find a CD on AMAZON and use each and all of the search terms used on the AMAZON page, I can usually find it on TIDAL and/or QOBUZ using one or all of them.
I have even found cases where a miss-spelling of a performer's name follows an album all over the internet in all services and even on Amazon pages!
I might well try it. I'm sort of cheap and paying for Tidal even punches me in the gut a bit.
$20 a month to have access to millions and millions of tracks instantly. I feel like I've robbed the bank!
Every time I start to wander (way easier thru Roon) I see all those records I put back into bins because I had reached my limit on that shopping trip. Now I can have them all.
nt
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I'm not necessarily saying that I dislike Roon, its just that I prefer LMS much more.
LMS for myself has a much better UI (IMHO) and will support most anything out there. Also there a number of Worldwide developers that continue to provide new releases and enhancements in the form of Plugins.
And it does not require a Yearly Fee as Roon does.
I've installed Roon a couple times on their trial basis, and it looks like it may appeal to folks that are into Metadata, Album Art etc.
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