The above "review" or ROON is quite superficial or even quite a nonsense according to my opinion.
Based on the extensive meta data you can surf in the UI of ROON through your music library like in Wikipedia, to read information on artists, composers, related music and the like, which is an experience LMS can not offer. Further, the integration of TIDAL music with your own music library in the form of local flac files (or files of other format) is marvelous, and you have the same rich meta data for the TIDAL music you added to your library as for the locally stored music. Whether a certain album is provided by TIDAL and therewith is to be heard via streaming from TIDAL servers or is present in the form of local music files makes no difference. Further, MQA high resolution files provided by TIDAL are supported. Nevertheless, LMS is great, and I love it and use both, i.e LMS and ROON. At my two main listening places I can alternatively use both (media room: LMS via Transporter, ROON via Bluesound Node 2; living room; LMS via Squeezebox Classic 3, Roon via Bluesound Node 2). All other relevant rooms are equipped with Squeezebox Radios. At said main listening places I tend to prefer ROON, due to the rich meta data. But I certainly will stick to LMS, even on the long term. Therefor I have stocked some replacement Squeezebox devices. For having a good UI experience, however, you need quite powerful hardware for ROON. Roon Labs recommends Intel NUCs for the so-called ROON ROCK, which are not very expensive. I use instead the "normal" ROON server, since I had a powerful DELL server anyway. I recommend to try ROON, which can stream also to Squeezebox devices, and to make use of the advantages of "both worlds". Otto-Wilhelm 1 transporter with touch for controlling, 1 squeezebox 3 6 squeezebox radio 3 squeezebox controllers ipeng on IPhones and IPads LMS with MusicIP under Windows 8.1 Pro virtualized (VMWare Workstation 12 Pro) under Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials on Dell PowerEdge T630 with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630L v3 @ 1.80 GHz 8 core CPUs and 32 GB; LMS unter Max2Play on Odroid XU4; LMS unter Windows Homeserver 2011 on Compulab Intense PC (Intel i5, 2.1 GHz, 8 GB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Otto-Wilhelm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33332 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108632 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
