jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Wonder if it will be offline downloads
The Dark Side; Digital audio equipment recommendations and setup.
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MikeH
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Did a quick watch of their update video and it's a free update to Roon. new app called Roon ARC that lets you listen on the go to music thats on your RoonCore, including the ability to save for offline listening.
Ghost
Original Resident Ghost
Kind of a sick product. “Your own personal streaming service”
Really compelling to me, would love to be able to listen to all the old mixtapes and albums I discovered as a teenager in high school that are just sitting lifelessly in iTunes.
MikeH
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Roon is fantastic if you have a ton of downloaded music, especially in high-quality format and subscribe to a service like Tidal or Qobuz. It's just so nice and easy to use and seamlessly blends your downloaded library + streaming. The UI is great.
This might be the final thing to make me ditch Apple Music. I imagine you'd still need to have a computer on all the time running Roon to act as your "core"/library but that might be your only hiccup for now (and transferring all your music from iTunes since it doesn't connect with iTunes or Spotify). I used to have a computer on all the time at home to sync my work and home computers with dropbox, but now just have a dedicated little computer to be the Roon library.
Have any of you checked out Media Monkey 5? I love that it loads the wiki page of the artist or album I'm playing. They added DSD support in 5, but I don't have any DSD files test it. It also supports cloud services (not sure of all), but it integrates with my Spotify to play albums that I don't have on FLAC. Might be an option for someone who only wants a $25 one time fee. I love how customizable it is as far as slicing and dicing your music. For example, I create a "collection" called "Five Star Songs" that's based on Rating = 5, and since its a collection, it will automatically create playlists for Genre, Album Artist, Artist, Album. I think that's pretty cool
MikeH
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seems interesting! wish it was available on Mac--i'd definitely give it a test run.
Music management software is the only reason I don't switch to Mac. Its pretty much all I use a PC for anymore.
Jbraswell
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I use my kids PC to run Roon.
They are logged in playing games, doing school work, etc. Roon runs in the background with my separate log in.
Worked seamlessly on an 7 yr old PC but just upgraded to a new AMD Ryzen 5 and should be ready to handle whatever the next 7 years are about.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Weird, my version Roon is not asking me to update Core or the Remote apps. I will wait, not a rush
Sadly with a Mac, there is nothing that rivals Roon that is free. Plex and Plex Amp pretty good alternative but still you pay about $80-$100 for a lifetime license
I used to use Media Monkey back when I was a PC person about 7yrs ago. Liked it.
Sadly with a Mac, there is nothing that rivals Roon that is free. Plex and Plex Amp pretty good alternative but still you pay about $80-$100 for a lifetime license
MikeH
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my core automatically updates I think? my NUC already had the new OS when I got a notice to update everything on my computer when I was listening to stuff on Roon. Updated my comp + there's a separate new app for playing on the go.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
I think the issue is that I have an older iMac and only running 10.4 Mojave. Mojave was nice and stable so I left it as it was for a while now.
Guess I am upgrading OS tonight.
Edit: upgraded and everything seems good to go with roon.
Guess I am upgrading OS tonight.
Edit: upgraded and everything seems good to go with roon.
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jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
Yup pretty much
Joe Mac
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Hmmmm! I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the fact that I have a lot of CDs/SACDs recently and that my quest to replace everything I can on vinyl is getting a bit mental.
So with that in mind, and my old SACD player crapping out, im currently balancing doing something modest against doing something utterly deranged to get me back spinning those discs, and to try to control my vinyl spend and to hold back the rapid expansion as much as possible.
I should have everything in place in about 6 months one way or another.
So with that in mind, and my old SACD player crapping out, im currently balancing doing something modest against doing something utterly deranged to get me back spinning those discs, and to try to control my vinyl spend and to hold back the rapid expansion as much as possible.
I should have everything in place in about 6 months one way or another.
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Joe Mac
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This is the slightly more modest thing, I’ll save the demented option for if I can’t talk myself out of it…
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jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
After having Roon 2.0 and ARC for a few days now I have to say I am completely underwhelmed by it. I keep thinking I am missing something else that they rolled out with 2.0 but there is nothing. To say this is an actual upgrade is stretching it. The only reason they are calling it 2.0 instead of 1.9 is that they had to do quite a bit of work under the hood to Core to allow ARC to work.
While PlexAmp is great on mobile devices, its desktop version is lacking. Until they improve that I will stick with Roon. But I have until May 2023 before Roon renews so hopefully something better comes along.
While PlexAmp is great on mobile devices, its desktop version is lacking. Until they improve that I will stick with Roon. But I have until May 2023 before Roon renews so hopefully something better comes along.
MikeH
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Do you find yourself listening to CDs more than streaming? I got a cheap SACD player and have barely touched it since buying it. For some reason can’t be bothered! Obviously part of it is that I don’t have nearly as many CDs as vinyl…but I find myself streaming a lot more since getting the Denafrips.This is the slightly more modest thing, I’ll save the demented option for if I can’t talk myself out of it…
CDT-10 - NuPrime Audio
The NuPrime CDT-10 is the ultimate professional music CD transport with powerful DSP-based decoder that provides all Red Book error-correction capabilities with master-clock control of the entire decoding system, thus lowering jitter significantly. The transport’s single speed minimizes...nuprimeaudio.com
MikeH
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I haven’t messed with Roon Arc much at all yet. What aren’t you liking about it? Agree that Roon 2.0 doesn’t seem different at all to me as purely a user playing music at home right now.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
More that it is just nothing special. The ability to download for later offline is nothing new. For a service that is funded entirely by (high) annual licences, the upgrade and the new app are pretty weak.