Any love for RompЯ? "a music player with the emphasis on discovery"

[MrSlim]

I've been meaning to get this set up at home with Mopidy as the server.

https://fatg3erman.github.io/RompR/

It looks to be a pretty feature rich alternative to Roon, but there is very little discussion about it on most of the regular audio enthusiast sites..

 

[Jaimo]

Good to that it's a Spotify client. Doesn't appear to support Tidal however

 

[amirm]

Hard to compete with Roon with free software. Likely their metadata is just showing Wiki or something which is not as good as what Roon has.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I've been meaning to get this set up at home with Mopidy as the server.

https://fatg3erman.github.io/RompR/

It looks to be a pretty feature rich alternative to Roon, but there is very little discussion about it on most of the regular audio enthusiast sites..

I could not find any info on what formats/resolutions it will handle or whether it supports multichannel files.

 

[PierreV]

I could not find any info on what formats/resolutions it will handle or whether it supports multichannel files.

That's normal in the sense that it doesn't support any.
It is an interface that controls mopidy https://www.mopidy.com/ which itself doesn't support any either directly, but does support a lot of stuff through plugins https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/plugins.html#decoder-plugins

 

[Kal Rubinson]

That's normal in the sense that it doesn't support any.
It is an interface that controls mopidy https://www.mopidy.com/ which itself doesn't support any either directly, but does support a lot of stuff through plugins https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/plugins.html#decoder-plugins

Too bad.

 

[BillG]

Hard to compete with Roon with free software. Likely their metadata is just showing Wiki or something which is not as good as what Roon has.

You might be surprised: there are a handful of current freeware/freemium applications (client, server, and standalone player) that access Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Discogs.com, and Wikipedia for their metadata and biographies, and these services are very comprehensive. They present this in a very user-friendly manner as well. However, their data mapping may not be as extensive as Roon's.

 

[Music1969]

Hard to compete with Roon with free software. Likely their metadata is just showing Wiki or something which is not as good as what Roon has.

Here is Roon's track credits for Track #1 here on the Tidal version:


And here is the 'free' Tidal app's data for Track #1:

 

[Duckeenie]

Read the smug install.txt, decided it wasn't for me.