Has anyone used the new Innuos 2.0 Sense music app? Compared it to Roon?


I compared the two as I am a lifetime Roon customer.  I prefer the sound of the new Innuos Sense music app.  More natural and less electronic or digital sounding.  Not day and night, but better. My big issue is Innuos Sense does not seem to keep playing music, like Roon, when the album is complete.  Roon had a Radio switch that played artists similar to the artist as a continuous stream and I loved it.  Heard many new artists I loved this way.  
Anyone know if Innuos Sense has a similar setting? I can’t seem to find it. 
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I won't be able to upgrade to Innuos 2.0 until the end of the month on my Zen Mk ii which I only use as a server. I have been using Orangesqueeze on my Android phone to control playback. If you will, please explain how the offline mode works and how Innuos Sense finds the Zen as server if it is not connected to the network.
With some trepidation, I have updated my Innuos Zen mk ii to 2.0.5.The good news: the update seems to have gone smoothly, only 8', then asked to reboot, then another 4' to get the Innuos Sense screen on the mainframe. Then it goes to "Music Library being converted". I went to the player function on the mainframe, and the initial sound does seem "better".  The bad news: on the P. Barber NIghtclub album it shows only 2 tracks, on the Chesky Club de Sol album it shows only 4 tracks. Hopefully as the library conversion continues it will complete the missing tracks. Also I can't find how to stop the player function so that the server can only do the conversion function.
Update on the 2.0 update: after over 4 hours of rescanning, the tracks are all there. There is a lot to like about the music library management with the album view; not so much on the artist view ( I now have over 8,000 artists for 3000+ albums ?). Operation with the mainframe PC is good, but the operation with the Innuos Sense app on my Android phone is nearly useless, as it keeps losing connection and sometimes can't find the server ( I had no such problems with Orangesqueeze and the same phone).  There is supposed to be a Sense update another week.
I replaced my old Motorola surfboard modem/router with a Netgear Nighthawk on Sunday. This resolved the instabilty with the Sense app.Today I updated my older Zen Mini mk II to 2.0.5. No problems.The Sense app finds whichever server I have in the system.
Yes, 2.0 is better than 1.4.9. (I can't comment on Roon.)  It's a little difficult to quantify since I had to run it with the PC on until I replaced my router, and you can't go back to verify. However, what's easy to judge is the jump in SQ with the "offline" mode, since you can toggle it back and forth and listen to the same music. The total effect of going to 2.0 and offline is startling: lower noise floor, much improved fine detail and impact on transients, but with a more "relaxed" sound... voices are "breathier", more real across the board.