klettermann
Member
Again and again I keep hearing how great Roon is. So, I keep reading about it and trying figure out how I'd really benefit and always come away feeling that I'm missing something or there's something I don't understand. Here's my scenario:
My "real" stereo is in a listening room (or will be after it's built, which will be soon). This includes a BlueOS Node 2i and Lumin U1 Mini for streaming. Probably 80% of my listening is Qubuz, the rest is CD's. There's also a small-but-nice mini sysgtem in my office fed by another Node 2i. In general I haven't been very interested in playing throughout the house. In fact, for that, there's a collection of Sonos stuff in most of the living areas. I hate it but it came from my partner and she likes it so it remains. The point is, playing music everywhere at once isn't very importent.
However, there's also a massive overkill server that I use primarily for video (Plex). The server also has a large music library that was given to me by a buddy (the issues with that are another topic). It's a mixed bag of formats, but mostly Apple AAC , M4A (Apple?) files with some FLAC and MP3 stuff as well. I'm not an Apple guy and know little about the Apple formats and little interest in learning. The library is not well organized so I don't really use it much. In the past I've played with Foobar and JRiver but always lost momentum. They just seemed to require too much fiddling around or required better library organization or naming conventions or whatever. I've also linked BlueOS and the Lumin controller to the library but it just seems clunky and annoying. To be sure, this may all be my own laziness in setting it up right.
This brings me back to Roon. What I'd like is for it to just look at the library, see everything and present it coherently. I'd like to search for something and find it where ever it exists, be it Qobuz or the library. I'm not that interested in all the info that Roon seems to pull up, but I guess that's a nice bonus. So could Roon be the solution to my scenario? Roon costs $$$ so I have to balance the value of integration (if it even does that) against the cost. I don't think the 2 week trial would be enough for me to properly evaluate so I'd have to go for a year. Any comments would be very helpful. Thanks and cheers,
My "real" stereo is in a listening room (or will be after it's built, which will be soon). This includes a BlueOS Node 2i and Lumin U1 Mini for streaming. Probably 80% of my listening is Qubuz, the rest is CD's. There's also a small-but-nice mini sysgtem in my office fed by another Node 2i. In general I haven't been very interested in playing throughout the house. In fact, for that, there's a collection of Sonos stuff in most of the living areas. I hate it but it came from my partner and she likes it so it remains. The point is, playing music everywhere at once isn't very importent.
However, there's also a massive overkill server that I use primarily for video (Plex). The server also has a large music library that was given to me by a buddy (the issues with that are another topic). It's a mixed bag of formats, but mostly Apple AAC , M4A (Apple?) files with some FLAC and MP3 stuff as well. I'm not an Apple guy and know little about the Apple formats and little interest in learning. The library is not well organized so I don't really use it much. In the past I've played with Foobar and JRiver but always lost momentum. They just seemed to require too much fiddling around or required better library organization or naming conventions or whatever. I've also linked BlueOS and the Lumin controller to the library but it just seems clunky and annoying. To be sure, this may all be my own laziness in setting it up right.
This brings me back to Roon. What I'd like is for it to just look at the library, see everything and present it coherently. I'd like to search for something and find it where ever it exists, be it Qobuz or the library. I'm not that interested in all the info that Roon seems to pull up, but I guess that's a nice bonus. So could Roon be the solution to my scenario? Roon costs $$$ so I have to balance the value of integration (if it even does that) against the cost. I don't think the 2 week trial would be enough for me to properly evaluate so I'd have to go for a year. Any comments would be very helpful. Thanks and cheers,
