29-Jun-2015, 13:35
(29-Jun-2015, 12:08)Dr Tone Wrote:(29-Jun-2015, 11:43)agentsmith Wrote: Pardon me if this has been asked before. Is this purely a music management & software player? if so why does one have to pay the annual subscription fee? Does the software self destruct upon expiry?
It's not really a management tool, it takes care of managing metadata for you and that meta data is constantly being fixed and updated over the year.
Subscription is the model they have decided to go with. I'd do the same.
I've been paying JRivers yearly upgrade fee since I first started using it so I decided to just purchase the lifetime on this one.
Not wishing to be argumentative here, but Roon is much more than a metadata manager. It has very extensive databasing of music, and to a great extent that is why this is on a subscription, or relatively large one off purchase price. Roon have to pay licenses to whole number of different sources to make their database as comprehensive as can be, it then takes all your music and builds up a more complete database of your library, with it's own (non-destructive) meta-dating. From this you can hyper-link to your heart's content. It also has seamless integration of Tidal, right inside your library, no need to switch between local files and Tidal, it all appears in each browsing screen. Everything can be mixed up.
Even there, I have only scratched the surface.
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