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 Roon is very compelling. I love the Roon UI and functionality and rich metadata it provides. I always thought I was quite meticulous at tagging, but a Roon scan (watched folders) quickly showed about 8% of my 2500+ albums were unidentified. In looking into it, I found tagging errors (mine) in quite a few cases that kept Roon from identifying the album. A quick fix and Roon had no problem identifying it.
Of course, it's not about to replace LMS for me (but does run quite nicely in parallel for now). Two things it doesn't have (yet) that I'm not about to give up anytime soon: internet radio streaming and iPeng!! It does not have an iphone app (big mistake) and their iPad app - while excellent by all accounts - requires a newer iPad and will not run on my iPad 2. But, damn, the Roon rich UI and metadata really does enhance just sitting down to listen to music. And I can't wait to see how well it handles Squeezeboxes as end points. It is incredibly promising. Mike (1 SB3, 1 Duet, 1 Boom, 2 Touch, 1 Radio & heavy use of iPeng on various iThings) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mdconnelly's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10312 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104044 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
