http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/roon-11-computer-audio-playback-software/
A very thorough and pretty good review of the Roon 1.1 software, at least until the reviewer gets to the part about how Roon sounds. Note my comments (under Ralph Pantuso). In any event, the review is worth reading. I presently use a combination of iPeng (phone or tablet) or Moose/Muso (Windows computers) to access and control my various Squeezeboxen (love those Dutch plurals) and from what I can gather Roon seems to have access to different and better online resources than Muso, which relies on primarily on the LMS database itself and Last.fm. Muso does have very similar display and sorting as Roon but for all that to work effectively the audio files have to have very good and hopefully accurate tags and cover art. And of course the more fields the tags have the more different ways there are to sort. One nice feature of Muso is the ability to quickly access any jpg, pdf and txt files that are located in the same folder as the audio files (or a "scans" subfolder). Very useful for reading scanned liner notes. Muso will also display all the other albums by the artist along with those by "similar" artists in one's LMS music library. I use Moose because it, by far, performs the fastest searches of the LMS database and returns results of the search term for artists, albums and songs. And as I said, the searches are way faster than done by LMS, iPeng or Muso. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
