07-Jun-2015, 14:33
(07-Jun-2015, 13:18)f1eng Wrote: Is Roon any use for tagging large classical music libraries in a convenient way? I haven't found a streaming software which is any good at filing and finding classical music yet.
It's good but far from perfect. For instance it tags principal soloists in operatic and choral works (which I could never be bothered to do myself) with hyperlinks to reviews, biographies and other works by the same artists. I find this capability really captivating, hours flying by as I surf while listening.
The metadata, while rich, certainly aren't perfect. For instance it seems to attribute works to John Eliot Gardiner and Sir John Eliot Gardiner as if they were different people, works by Handel are tagged as variously Handel and Haendel, etc.
I would say that to answer your question you really need to test drive it yourself, since "convenient" can be quite subjective and Roon may handle some areas of classical repertoire (much of mine is reasonably mainstream) better than others. But it's orders of magnitude better than anything else I've seen and I ponied up for a lifetime subscription without hesitation (or regret).