mdconnelly wrote: > A Roon lifetime license is $499 or you can subscribe on an annual basis > for $119 I think. There is no requirement to buy a NAS or Mac Mini. > You can use whatever you're using for LMS and wherever your music is > currently stored - Mac or PC. Well, if you're using Linux, that may > not be true yet for Roon but soon will be. > > The Roon attraction over LMS is simply that it is a far more elegant way > to manage your music plus Roon provides substantial metadata that most > users will simply not have embedded in their music files. Roon Labs is > also very proactive in their customer/community support and the > evolution of their product. > > Hey, I've used LMS since the early SlimDevices days and have always been > a big fan. If you want a free system that just works, then there is no > need to look further than LMS. I started using Roon over a year ago > (admittedly jumped in when Roon was having a nice sale) and must say > that I can't imagine ever going back. IMO, Roon is what the Squeezebox > environment should have evolved into.
Yes, the roon development team interactions with users is very much like the early days of Squeezeboxes, where the developers were active participants in the forums, etc. And the roon metadata experience (which is very impressive, and more than just metadata, i.e., connections across things) seems to me to be exactly the sort of thing that erland and colleagues were trying to get to in the LMS environment (recall all the surveys they had a few years ago about how we interacted with our music collections). I've used roon, I've used SONOS. Sonos was a non-starter even beyond not handling my library size. It's interface and what it can and can't do was just too limited coming from LMS and its rich interface with plugins. But I can understand how its plug and play works nicely for the average consumer, particularly if all they do is stream online services. Roon on the other hand is very impressive, not limited in the same way, can deal with perfect sync multi room players, etc. Very nice. But it can only work with the TIDAL streaming and doesn't have things like podcast apps, or other services or a radio service other than enter a manual URL. Is it worth the $$$. Maybe, maybe not. That depends on the user. I don't find it overpriced for what it does, but I spent more for dinner and wine last night than a year's membership, so its all relative. I'm still a very happy user of LMS and plan to be for a long time, but I could easily see how Roon could be a supplement or replacement should LMS die. p.s. Roon does now work on linux. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win8(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Transporter, Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win8(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104044 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
