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

Since my mast post I recalled an example of the headaches I was having with Roon—aside from crazy-bad connectivity problems.  I could never pull up “History”.  History is so accessible with Sense. And I personally find it useful to have instant access to what I played in the past.

And with respect to music discovery: I have found good songs/artists by looking into the Qonuz playlists.presented thru Sebse.  One new one is the James Bond playlist.  I found a track by Iggy Pop called “James Bond”, which led me to his album called “Free”.  Beautiful recording quality.  At minimum, JB is an extremely effective track for assessing vocals and low frequency.  Seriously one of the best.  And the other songs are original in the extreme.

The edit feature is not letting me correct my typos.  I hope what I intended is discernible.

The only issues I ever saw with Roon came when I engaged DSP; so I turned it off. I do hope that Sense adopts the machine learning or whatever logic Roon uses to suggest new music based on history. There are also some other features like "play from here" that sense doesn't have yet or maybe I've not figured it out. Perhaps the best Roon feature is how it abstracts the underlying music sources and presents them as a single library. Sense does provide the ability to create playlist using both sources but they are still managed as separate resources. They seem to be going in the unified direction as search functions can be specific to one or all which is all good IMO.

I really hope the one feature Sense does not adopt is any kind of recommendation engine. Have never yet found one capable of recognising that it’s recommending something I already own or of recommending anything interesting. 

Several hours ago I got a beta version of an update that will be available for all Innuos users next week. I presume there may be others who have received it. It was offered after an email exchange with Nuno concerning issues with albums not being available for play. After clicking on an album, a banner appeared stating “album not found”. The update eliminated the problem.

Best news is that it brings us another improvement in SQ. Really really nice one. Noise floor lower. Glare reduced by a lot. Better in virtually every audiophile parameter. For a guy that spins no vinyl (streaming only), I will sound Ike a broken record in saying it as I’ve said before: a jump in SQ like this would cost a nice piece of change. Had I added an ethernet filter or some dialed in room acoustics that cost a pretty penny, I’d be fully satisfied. That it was free…..beyond satisfied, of course.  And no effort to shop gear, hope I chose well, what if I don’t love it? Nope. Just download an update and be wowed. Pretty darn nice, in my opinion.