I'm a long time LMS/Squeezebox user - nearly a dozen years now... I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all those that have kept LMS afloat after Logitech ditched it. So for me to consider leaving it behind is no easy decision.
With that said, the rich Roon UI and environment runs circles around it. More importantly, it's getting the level of development & financial support that sadly, Logitech never gave LMS and Squeezeboxes. Numerous tools have cropped up (like Moose & Muso) that have served as great front-ends to LMS. Muso, particular, has a pretty slick UI. But still, not the content-and-functionality rich environment that Roon has established. IMO, Roon is a game-changer in how I listen to music and continues to evolve in a substantial way. My biggest hold-outs against Roon were the lack of phone control support and it's inability to stream radio. Well, Roon v1.2 just released now does that very nicely. And while there is no Spotify integration, Roon's integration with Tidal is exceptional. And then there is Roon's significant efforts to work with other hardware manufacturers to get their equipment 'RoonReady'. I will say that while Roon can stream to any Squeezebox or Squeezelite device (which is very cool and how I first learned about Roon), it simply treats them as end-points. So the slick UI of the Touch or SB Radio will not work other than as an on/off switch. But given that I've been controlling my Squeezeboxen via iPeng for years, I really don't have a problem with that and can just as easily now control them via the Roon Remote app. Last but far from least... the various plugins and LMS functionality that I've come to know and love (and yes, often not all that easy to know and love over the years) is lost in the Roon environment. Even if someone could find a way to implement the Roon RAAT protocol within a Squeezebox, it still would lose all the LMS plug-in functionality we've come to love. But then, much of that is either already in Roon or on their roadmap. Am I ready to turn the LMS lights off? Hmmm, I don't know... maybe. Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, 1 Radio & heavy use of iPeng on various iThings) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mdconnelly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104044 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
