audiomuze wrote: > What do you term "rather large"? I'm running 22.6k albums/ 334k tracks > located on an Arch Linux based i3. Roon's running on win server 2012 R2 > on an old Asus P5E64 WS Pro board (iX38 Intel ICH9R chipset) with 8GB > DDR3-1333, Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 and it's very responsive. As > soon as the Linux build is released I'll be running Roon on the same i3 > that my library is stored on. Searches are a lot quicker than via iPeng > and faster than LMS. I used to keep LMS' database on a ramdisk and > performance was great. > > I don't think there's anything out there that delivers as rich and > immersive an experience iro leveraging metadata to enhance your > listening experience. As a simple example LMS is great at surfacing > links between artists and tracks if you've captured that data. With > Roon you don't have to have captured that data... more often than not > Roon knows who's appeared on a track so you end up finding instances > where a favourite artist has appeared elsewhere in your library that you > had no idea of. > > A pet hate I have iro LMS and all the wifi apps is that when you browse > an artist you're presented with a long mixed bag laundry list of > everything they've appeared in that's surfaced by your tags - their > albums, appearances, compilations, bootlegs all mixed together in one > glorious mess...good luck finding an album you're after if you have a > lot of compilations. Roon sorts that lot and presents them on the same > screen differentiating between main albums, singles and EPs, appearances > on other artist's albums and then compilations. I gave up asking for > this in LMS. > > It also lists Similar To, Followed by, Influenced by and Associated with > that appears in your library (which can incorporate Tidal albums > seamlessly). > > There's work to do on Classical music and metadata editing/ > customization within Roon's database and it's underway...I've no doubt > the end result will be fantastic...the Roon team are music lovers and > they get it.
Thanks for the very informative post. You answered many of my questions. And for the record, my music library has 42k albums and 550k tracks, mostly flac with almost 4K of the albums high resolution. I will give Roon a try in the near future. 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
