garym wrote: > Just checking this out. I think this is new in 1.2 that was just > released. It seems to work with TIDAL as well as one's own library. > From the description, it's not clear that it does the same sort of > interesting matching that smartmix does. That is, roon radio appears to > be more like doing random play from a GENRE or other metadata sources. > Not a bad thing at all, but I thought that SmartMix uses certain audio > characteristics as well, unrelated to metadata. Anyhow, I haven't yet > used roon radio, so can't really say. Certainly a good feature, even if > not SmartMix replacement.
I've played roon radio for about 45 minutes now. Nice mixture, but mix seems strictly based on connected/similar artists. I'm not getting anything like the very interesting cross-genre mixes I got with smartmix. *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:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(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=97668 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
