ROON

[Womaz]

Am I the only one on here who just uses the Control app to stick an album on and then just listen to it?
When I am listening to music I dont really do anything else, like reading about the artist or album......I just want to listen to it.

[Rodney Gold]

$500 is a LOT for normal ppl ... not sooo much for devialet owners tho... and there are many many alternatives a lot cheaper than $500 .. like Jriver at $49

Roon suits me , what with 9000 albums ripped and tidal .. LMS (logitech media server) with tidal integration..which cost me nothing .. was fine as well had roon not existed

[NickB]

There are indeed cheaper ones, and if anyone thinks its to much then don't buy it use the other. It does however seem strange that there are people (not pointed at you) who will spend upwards of £20,000 on a replay system then moan about $500 to play and organise their files through it.

[Jnan_devi]

Hello NickB,

I see in your signature, you have NUC i7 which is really cool for Roon. However you have 1TB SSD. There is enough space on your SSD to put your regularly played tracks and enough space left for ROON to occupy for whatever cools stuff it does.

Seems like a good option for me. I dont have whole lot of track and for now 1TB SSD is more than sufficient and I can get rid of NAS. Future SSD is about to bloat matching current NAS capacity.

Are you not using NAS? (Did not see NAS in the signature)

[Rodney Gold]

I can understand folk balking at roons price .. most just see it as another user interface
What puzzles me BIG time is the moaning re Tidals price .. $20 (in our case in south africa is only $10) for almost unlimited music in redbook format and maybe MQA as well..

[Hifi_swlon]

….. However you have 1TB SSD. There is enough space on your SSD to put your regularly played tracks and enough space left for ROON to occupy for whatever cools stuff it does.

How big's your library Jnan_devi?

Roon itself uses barely anything - it tends to do all its clever database stuff in RAM so big collections need decent memory - big in Roon terms is multiple thousands (maybe even tens of thousands) of albums.

[Confused]

I can understand folk balking at roons price .. most just see it as another user interface
What puzzles me BIG time is the moaning re Tidals price .. $20 (in our case in south africa is only $10) for almost unlimited music in redbook format and maybe MQA as well..

Has there been much moaning re the Tidal price?  In the UK the "standard" subscription is £10 per month, HiFi subscription £20 per month.  (Qobuz prices are similar)  The moaning I have seen is either from folk who would rather use Qobuz, and people like myself who would like Roon to link with a free service such a Spotify to make use of the 'music discovery' features.  For me, I do not listen to streamed music except for the odd few minutes occasionally on Spotify to check something out prior to a potential purchase.  In other words, I actually agree that Tidal is good value (especially at SA prices!), but clearly £10 or £20 per month is poor value in the specific case of someone who might only use it for 15 minutes a month.

Edit: £20 is $28.75 US at today's exchange rate, so maybe there is reason for much moaning, if you happen to be British!

[Confused]

Actually, there's one enterprising Roon user trying to export track ratings from iTunes via metadata, which he can then use with focus filters in Roon.  Looks like he's got a few issues (possibly bugs) but its a nice idea, and would be easy for Roon to do something like this as a stopgap.  Not a solution you'd expect from Roon, but it would do the job…. The relevant bit starts at post 18… https://community.roonlabs.com/t/where-d...hem/156/18

I'm trying here….. (no, I'm not on commission )

Ah yes, the enterprising Roon user!  I've seen him lurking on the Roon forum, he's clearly an absolute genius!

(OK - Confession, I am the aforementioned enterprising Roon user)

[tategoi]

the biggest bugbear to mass roon adoption is the price
I got life membership on a special at $200 .. but at $500 .. LMs/Jriver/whatever would do
apart from that , I had to get a new touchscreen puter and ipad to run roon , it wouldnt run on my old ipad and my old puter due to screen resolution

How to get special life membership at $200? I was wondering if Devialetchat can negotiate a special group price package for its members.

[Hifi_swlon]

the biggest bugbear to mass roon adoption is the price
I got life membership on a special at $200 .. but at $500 .. LMs/Jriver/whatever would do
apart from that , I had to get a new touchscreen puter and ipad to run roon , it wouldnt run on my old ipad and my old puter due to screen resolution

How to get special life membership at $200? I was wondering if Devialetchat can negotiate a special group price package for its members.

Says the man who's just bought an Od'A … Come on, let the Roon guys get their hard earned money too - it's a lifetime membership!!