Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
ralphpnj wrote: > ...handles my rather large music library. Basically what really > intrigues my about Roon is the rich and robust metadata along with, as > you so nicely put it, the leveraging of that metadata enhance one's > listening experience, an area where Muso, though pretty good, still > falls well short.What do you term "rather large"? I'm running 22.6k albums/ > 334k tracks located on an Arch Linux based i3. Roon's running on win server 2012 R2 on an old Asus P5E64 WS Pro board (iX38 Intel ICH9R chipset) with 8GB DDR3-1333, Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 and it's very responsive. Searches are a lot quicker than via iPeng and faster than LMS. I used to keep LMS' database on a ramdisk and performance was great. I don't think there's anything out there that delivers as rich and immersive an experience iro leveraging metadata to enhance your listening experience. As a simple example LMS is great at surfacing links between artists and tracks if you've captured that data. With Roon you don't have to have captured that data... more often than not Roon knows who's appeared on a track so you end up finding instances where a favourite artist has appeared elsewhere in your library that you had no idea of. A pet hate I have iro LMS and all the wifi apps is that when you browse an artist you're presented with a long mixed bag laundry list of everything they've appeared in that's surfaced by your tags - their albums, appearances, compilations, bootlegs all mixed together in one glorious mess...good luck finding an album you're after if you have a lot of compilations. Roon sorts that lot and presents them on the same screen differentiating between main albums, singles and EPs, appearances on other artist's albums and then compilations. I gave up asking for this in LMS. It also lists Similar To, Followed by, Influenced by and Associated with that appears in your library (which can incorporate Tidal albums seamlessly). There's work to do on Classical music and metadata editing/ customization within Roon's database and it's underway...I've no doubt the end result will be fantastic...the Roon team are music lovers and they get it. SqueezeWand | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/tower-series/scm100aslt/) *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most Linux distributions. audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
Roon do not handle classical music as well as LMS with custom browse/scan plugins. They also acknowledge this weakness. Unless they improve on this aspect, I will stick with LMS. adyc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12564 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
audiomuze wrote: > I am, I have a perpetual license somewhere in an email as I was one of > the original testers. I haven't used it in some time though as I'm > principally a Linux user. > > Roon basically embodies just about everything I could want from a music > server, it's metadata rich, it can use its own metadata or yours or > both, leverages the metadata to enable exploration of your music, it's > fast, enables filtering of browsing/playback by multiple criteria, has > artist biographies, album reviews, lyrics etc. and streams bit-perfect > audio. > > I saw your comment re wishing Roon had a plugin for LMS. Truth is it > doesn't need it, just download and install it and point it to your > library as a Watched Folder (don't use Organised folder unless you want > it to move your files). Terminate LMS and enable Squeezebox support in > Roon and your SBx players will appear within Roon. 14 day free trial, > nothing to lose. Thanks for the quick reply and the useful information. I may give the free trail a try and see how well Roon handles my rather large music library. Basically what really intrigues my about Roon is the rich and robust metadata along with, as you so nicely put it, the leveraging of that metadata enhance one's listening experience, an area where Muso, though pretty good, still falls well short. Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] RC (Inguz etc.)
PS that's LMS 7.7.5 on Windows 7 blscorp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77084 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
ralphpnj wrote: > First are you familiar with Muso?I am, I have a perpetual license somewhere > in an email as I was one of the original testers. I haven't used it in some time though as I'm principally a Linux user. Roon basically embodies just about everything I could want from a music server, it's metadata rich, it can use its own metadata or yours or both, leverages the metadata to enable exploration of your music, it's fast, enables filtering of browsing/playback by multiple criteria, has artist biographies, album reviews, lyrics etc. and streams bit-perfect audio. I saw your comment re wishing Roon had a plugin for LMS. Truth is it doesn't need it, just download and install it and point it to your library as a Watched Folder (don't use Organised folder unless you want it to move your files). Terminate LMS and enable Squeezebox support in Roon and your SBx players will appear within Roon. 14 day free trial, nothing to lose. SqueezeWand | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/tower-series/scm100aslt/) *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most Linux distributions. audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] RC (Inguz etc.)
Where are the EQ presets stored? I would like to delete and/or rename some of them and can't find them in the Inguz related directories, nor do I see corresponding entries in the .conf files Thanks. blscorp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65189 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77084 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
audiomuze wrote: > Bought a lifetime Roon license and haven't looked back. Currently using > Squeezelite running on Wandboard Quads as transports. Once Roon Bridge > is released I doubt I'd continue using Squeezelite. Roon aside, LMS > remains the best and most versatile music server I've ever encountered. > Long live LMS and Squeezelite. > > I still have a few factory sealed SBT's ... anyone interested in buying > them? I don't mean to be a pest but I do have a few simple questions about using Roon versus using LMS along with programs like Muso. First are you familiar with Muso? If no then we're done. If yes, then how does Roon compare with a program like Muso? Thanks! Living Rm: Transporter-SimAudio pre/power amps-Vandersteen 3A Sign. & sub Home Theater: Touch-Marantz HTR-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Linn sub Computer Rm: Touch-Headroom Desktop w/DAC-Aragon amp-Energy Veritas 2.1 & Energy sub Bedroom: Touch-HR Desktop w/DAC-Audio Refinement amp-Energy Veritas 2.0 Guest Rm: Duet-Sony soundbar Garage: SB3-JVC compact system Controls: iPeng; SB Controller; Moose & Muso Server: LMS 7.9 on dedicated windows 10 computer w/2 Drobos 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] A nice review of the Roon software
Bought a lifetime Roon license and haven't looked back. Currently using Squeezelite running on Wandboard Quads as transports. Once Roon Bridge is released I doubt I'd continue using Squeezelite. Roon aside, LMS remains the best and most versatile music server I've ever encountered. Long live LMS and Squeezelite. SqueezeWand | 'Vivere DAC MKI' (http://vivereaudio.com/post/2013/08/16/DAC-I-is-Born!.aspx) | 'ATC SCA2' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/electronics/source-pre-amplifiers/sca2/) | 'ATC SCM100ASLT' (http://www.atcloudspeakers.co.uk/hi-fi/loudspeakers/tower-series/scm100aslt/) *'Linux finally gets a great audio tagger' (http://www.ubuntugeek.com/linux-finally-gets-a-great-audio-tagger.html): 'puddletag' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/)* - now packaged in most Linux distributions. audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105146 ___ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
