I have an Elac Discovery Music Server - DS-S101G which comes with a lifetime Roon Essentials control app. Roon Essentials is a stripped down version of Roon, with no monthly subscription fee, no DSP, or EQ.
You connect a hard drive or NAS to the Elac music server and Roon Essentials organizes all of your music files with album artwork, composer, song info, lyrics, etc... A control app on a phone, or tablet worked great to find songs, artists, and play flawlessly. I had about 100 CDs stored on a hard drive in FLAC files. The sound from the Elac discovery unit is great.
Suddenly only 13 albums out of 100 showed up in Roon Essentials. All the rest are missing. All my music files are still on the hard drive, and they are not corrupt.
Roon Essentials also offered full integration with Tidal and Qobuz. Search of albums, artists, and songs on Tidal stopped working. There is no longer access to 100 million songs on TIdal.
After hours of troubleshooting it turns out Roon Labs no longer supports Roon Essentials software or tech support. which was great in the past.
Elac tech support cannot access the Roon Essentials software. So they can't offer tech support. The Elac music server is no longer listed on the Elac website, except in the Outlet section. Manuals, and forum are gone.
All of this is very disappointing. I had a really nice set up. Now it is almost useless.
Come on Roon Labs. Do the right thing and continue to support Roon Essentials.
You connect a hard drive or NAS to the Elac music server and Roon Essentials organizes all of your music files with album artwork, composer, song info, lyrics, etc... A control app on a phone, or tablet worked great to find songs, artists, and play flawlessly. I had about 100 CDs stored on a hard drive in FLAC files. The sound from the Elac discovery unit is great.
Suddenly only 13 albums out of 100 showed up in Roon Essentials. All the rest are missing. All my music files are still on the hard drive, and they are not corrupt.
Roon Essentials also offered full integration with Tidal and Qobuz. Search of albums, artists, and songs on Tidal stopped working. There is no longer access to 100 million songs on TIdal.
After hours of troubleshooting it turns out Roon Labs no longer supports Roon Essentials software or tech support. which was great in the past.
Elac tech support cannot access the Roon Essentials software. So they can't offer tech support. The Elac music server is no longer listed on the Elac website, except in the Outlet section. Manuals, and forum are gone.
All of this is very disappointing. I had a really nice set up. Now it is almost useless.
Come on Roon Labs. Do the right thing and continue to support Roon Essentials.