garym wrote:
> I'm told that Roon has significant ongoing expenses in licensing the
> data they use in creating the user experience (which is the key value
> added prospect of the product). If true, and I believe it is, this is
> why the product can't simply be "free" or dirt cheap. My only comp
bsergiu wrote:
> Hi HiFi friends,
>
> I was attracted to the Roon hype, looked into it and got confused.
> I know that the HiFi world is a matter of taste and preferences, and the
> argumentation for whatever equipment or software does not have to be
> based on pure cold logic :) However, did I
You might want to consider Roon if...
a) you already have one or more Squeezeboxes (Roon will work with them)
b) you don't mind spending a bit of money (Roon has an annual
subscription fee or you can buy a lifetime license)
c) you want a far better UI than LMS provides
It was difficult for me to
MediaMonkey does a nice job of this - particularly if you want to put in
on your phone as well.
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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
reverendo wrote:
> thanks for the input.
> what else is missing from Roon, apart from Radio?
No iPeng! There is still no iPhone app to control Roon and what does
exist for an iPad will only work on the newest iPads.But, Roon does
have such apps on their roadmap so I suspect we'll see it so
reverendo wrote:
> very interested. always wanted to find out if another server would make
> the end result sound different.
> it's a very high price, though, so will probably test for two weeks and
> see how it fares against lms.
> great thread, btw.
I'm using Roon and occasionally switch back
The original post stated that you could run LMS on it locally. Is that
realistic or more like running LMS on a SB Touch (i.e. technically
doable but with great restrictions).
Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, 1 Radio & heavy use of iPeng on
various iThings)
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Roon works fine with Touch and Duet. Haven't yet tried it with a
Classic but thanks for the heads-up. I would think that if you are a
Tidal and Squeezebox user, Roon would be a huge win. It is still a work
in progress hence the need and desire to continue using LMS for features
that don't (yet
Their UI and use of metadata makes it so easy to surf through your music
collection finding music and relationships you'd never know existed.
It's also extremely intuitive and quite beautiful. But yes, it's harder
to describe than it is to see. This video gives a pretty effective
glimpse...
h
Hey, I've been a huge Squeezebox fan since the very early SlimDevices
days and I'm the last one to ever want to give up on it.
With that said, Roon is a game changer when it comes to how you listen
and explore your music. If you've got a large library of music, Roon
gives you a easy, intuiti
In anticipation of the Squeezebox support coming soon, I popped for a
lifetime subscription to Roon after having tested it for a week or so.
I have to say that I'm extremely impressed. If what you want is the
ability to get more engaged with your music (and less so with the
technology), then R
I purchased a Touch off ebay not too long ago. I think if you find a
seller that has good ratings and they say it's in good condition, you're
reasonably safe. I've been seeing them in the $200 and up range of late
although if/when you find a new one, they're much pricier.
Unfortunately, I d
Using 7.9 latest with Win 10 since Win 10 was released and have had no
problems at all.
And while 7.9 is 'beta', it is rock solid with many nice features over
the earlier versions. Should be no problems with plugins.
Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, 1 Radio & heavy use of iPeng on
variou
Any more news on the Roon to Squeezebox front? I'm a long-time
Squeezebox user and haven't found anything yet worthy of replacing it.
But I must admit that Roon sounds like an amazingly well-designed
front-end for music.
While the pricetag is a formidable obstacle, I would absolutely give
Roo
OK, I'm 2 weeks+ into my Tidal 30 day trial. Will we see a public beta
of ickStream soon? If not, I'll probably just cancel my Tidal
subscription until I get a chance to check it out in my Squeezebox
setup.
Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, & heavy use of iPeng on various
iThings)
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erland wrote:
> Make sure you have registered your interest as beta tester on our web
> site http://www.ickstream.com if you are interested to try it.
Yep, have been for quite some time. Haven't heard anything.
Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, & heavy use of iPeng on various
iThings)
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Actually, I agree To my ears, Tidal does sound better than Spotify
when set on the HiFi setting (lossless). Is that lossless vs Spotify's
320 mp3 streaming? I don't know. I have compared hires mp3 to lossless
before and didn't hear as much difference as I do between Spotify and
Tidal. I wa
HDTracks.com and LinnRecords.com are known for their hi-res/studio
master downloads (resolution/quality issues aside), but they also sell a
lot of the albums as normal CD resolution (44.1/16) downloads. And, of
course, their selection is limited.
If/when Amazon offers lossless downloads, it wil
+1 on wanting/willing to buy lossless music (i.e. flac) online and
download. I do buy from HDTracks at times but, like others, I'm more
likely to buy CDs and rip to flac. I have no desire to buy lossy MP3
music.
mdconnel
garym wrote:
> For me it doesn't matter, I'm happy seeing everything. My wife would
> prefer to not have such overwhelming choices. She wants to see only the
> stuff she's interested in. We mostly share musical tastes, but out of my
> 70,000 tracks, she's interested in about 10,000 of them and w
I've heard good things about using an iDevice with iPeng and the Pure
i-20 dock (< $100) which serves as both a DAC with analog outs or using
its digital output to your own DAC -- both options better than just
using the iDevice headphone output.
It would seem that Logitech abandoning the manu
While I'm not about to dump my Squeezeboxen anytime soon, one product
that I'm curious about is the AudioEngine D2. I'm not clear if you can
bypass the D2 Receiver's DAC to use your own, but the concept of a D2
Sender working with up to 3 D2 Receivers is intriguing. Might be worth
checking out..
Jeff Flowerday wrote:
> www.crashplan.com
>
> Cloud plus the ability to backup to friends for extra redundancy.
>
> 4 years unlimited data cloud for $150. Dirt cheap. Or backup to a
> network of friends for free.
+1 on Crashplan.
All cloud based backups are only going to be as fast as the
m the Touch).
Just my 2 cents
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yment.
>
> P
Doh! Thank you - I'll give that a try asap. I've got a Touch, SB3 and
Duet and I stream to all of them lossless so it never dawned on me to
stream mp3 remotely.
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dsale, etc...)
I can easily use iPeng on my phone to check to see if I already have an
album. That's convenient!
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I believe the Duet will only stream 24/48 but will down-convert cleanly.
The Touch streams 24/96.
I simply store my 24/96 flac files as I do any other CD-ripped flac
files. SqueezeCenter knows what to do.
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t how great it is to have my full music collection at my disposal
when not at home. That's huge!
Sure, the new app is nice and had Logi released that 2 years ago, we
may never have seen an iPeng. But they didn't.
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ck equipment. And you do need a way to
play it back (which, of course, your Touch will certainly accomodate).
But given a good recording and a great playback system, there's no
going back.
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Nice - Thanks!
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ntroller still wins
on convenience.
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t an SB3 remote. And, since the
Controller also controls my SB3s, I may just pop for a 2nd Controller
next.
But what I really want to see is a 24/96 receiver (i.e. something
significantly less expensive than the Transporter).
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the
cost of the Transporter.
P.S... love the Duet controller!
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tter sonics that the Transporter affords but at
a more affordable price point.
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with the current SB3 or
Duet receiver that would be substantially better than the integral
DAC.
I'd buy #1 for my main rig and #2 for my secondary system.
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When I realized that the problem was somehow related to rebooting, I
changed SqueezeCenter to start as a service. Now it is behaving
correctly after reboot.
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SqueezeCenter startup from at login to a
service and that resolved the problem.
At this point, it's working correctly, but I still don't have a clue
what it was doing.
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not seeing anything obvious in the server log.
Anybody have any ideas on this?
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I have a set of about a dozen or so Favorites composed of Internet radio
stations and Slacker stations. Works great. But twice now, most, but
not all, simply disappear. But, after reinstalling SC7 (the same
current production release), they reappear.
Any ideas?
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I had a similar situation... I then held down the brightness button on
the SB remote to force reload/update the firmware and all returned to
normal after reboot. Not sure if it really did get new firmware or if
it was just the reboot.
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