27-May-2016, 08:41
(This post was last modified: 27-May-2016, 08:46 by Hifi_swlon.)
(26-May-2016, 17:28)f1eng Wrote: Maybe I should ask this elsewhere but there seen to be lots of knowledgeable Roon-ists on here. Is Roon any good with classical music yet?
f1 I don't do much classical as you know, but I believe opinion is still mixed among the classical users - some say its the best out there, others say it needs improvement. The current Roon version in development is allegedly focussing on all things meta-data, so maybe the next release will be a different beast. I'd really encourage you to drop a line over at the Roon forums if you haven't already - there are a lot of users with a big cross section of music tastes and some of them with absolutely eye waveringly huge libraries - so I'm sure you'll get some good honest feedback on where it is at the moment. What I have come across is that the sentiment seems to be metadata is bad for classical and its an industry-wide problem, but this is just me regurgitating things I don't know about personally..
One thing I would ask though, in your current CD setup - how do you organise/find things? Do you mainly go by album title? Position on shelves? I guess what I'm thinking is if you want a pretty way to have all your CDs available in Roon - you could just mimic your current setup and work with it in album mode and find things the same way as you would with CDs, except they can be queued and saved as favourites etc etc. The 'classical specific' features like movements etc, would then be at your fingertips as things improved/evolved. In any case I can't see how it could be 'worse' than finding CDs on shelves.
I only had 800 or so CDs to digitise, but getting through them was the most challenging part of moving to computer playback, so its never too early to start! If I had to do it again or I suddenly acquired a mass of new CDs, I'd probably invest in a more specific ripping station or get someone to do it for me. On a Mac mini and external USB CD drive using iTunes it was relatively painful - mainly just the speed and sorting out artwork/missing metadata etc - which I now know there are better tools for....
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