Really, there’s so much that Roon will do. Roon automatically pulls this and other info like Genre (another pain point for me) from their crowdsourced database. I can’t be the only one that has spent hours renaming Cover Art files to “folder” so that you can see the album cover in your playlist. Roon also handles all the metadata and cover art issues you tend to have with other music software. Still, they don’t incorporate info gleaned from all the local FLAC files you may have collected over the years, and they don’t let you search your library with the depth that Roon does. Now I know some will say, “I can do the same thing on the TIDAL, Spotify, or Qobuz apps.” Yes, all those services have nice music discovery/suggestion features (that are getting better every day). As you can tell, with Roon, discovering new music is never an issue, especially with a personalized “Discover” screen that digs gems out of your collection.
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Not only that, Roon will show me all the artists that collaborated with the artist in question and then recommend albums by those artists. For example, it will point out all the albums I have collected from a particular artist, both local and online, then show me the rest of their discography on TIDAL. Not only that, it gives my music context.
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With that combination, Roon links all of my local network music with my online collection and creates a unified collection. I have my Roon core network connected to a Seagate NAS drive with all of my music stored on it and my TIDAL account. (Pro Tip: You can even use Amazon Fire tablets, which gives you a cheap big-screen option to control the experience) My Roon Core
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Then you can install the Roon remote app on your smartphone or tablet and have an awesome visual guide to your complete collection while directing music to all your endpoints. (Keep in mind, you must have the Core computer on at all times to access music via the endpoints.
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All you basically have to do is install the Roon software on your core computer, then connect the endpoints (a streamer with Roon like my Cambridge Audio CXN V2, an Apple Airplay device, or a laptop with an AudioQuest Dragonfly) to your audio system.Ĭlick here for more info on how Roon works: It takes a little work to get going, but it’s really not that bad. Now I have my Roon Core, the computer where your account and database resides, set up on a three-year-old laptop, plus several Roon endpoints ( audio devices that receive music from the core), placed all over the house.