Quick roon question

Roon can actually be three separate parts. Beside the server and bridge (or end point), you can have a third device that does nothing but select and control the music to be played. This latter part is often on a smartphone or tablet device.

You can have all three parts on a single Windows or Apple Mac desktop or laptop, or you can divvy them up between two or three separate devices. The music can even be separate from the server, such as on a network drive, though both the server and the music drive must be on and able to see each other for things to work.

I ran a month long trial of Roon, running the Roon server software on my Linux desktop, with a Raspberry Pi endpoint and a Kindle Fire as a controller. (I ended up passing on the subscription. There were some things I liked about Roon but other aspects I didn't.)

What didn't you like. 

I passed on Roon for two reasons. First, they do not have a control app that runs on Linux, even though they have server and endpoint software for this OS. My laptop runs on LInux and I use it a lot while listening. Without a control program, that meant I had to pick up my phone or Kindle, get it opened up, go to the Roon program and do whatever I wanted, then return to the laptop. That's a lot of extra steps and a slow process for pausing to answer the phone or just skip a track.

The second issue is Roon doen't support folder browsing and, after using LMS (Logitech Media Server) for well over a decade, I really missed that option. Roon, which is heavily album based, really wants you to look for music THEIR way. I think I was just too set in my ways.

If either of those two features (particularly the first one - a Linux control app) were present, I'd probably have stuck with Roon. I'm still watching to see if they make any changes going forward.

If either of those two features (particularly the first one - a Linux control app) were present, I'd probably have stuck with Roon

Have you looked at the WebControl extension. Appears to do exactly what you are looking for.

Messed with it for a while but was never able to get it running to my satisfaction. It's not an official Roon program but rather something put together by another user.

Not to disrail this thread, I'll just wrap it up this way. LMS works well for the way I choose music. Roon had some glitzy features but to justify $120 a year, it would have had to fire on all cylinders. As noted previously, it didn't.