The Node is a great Swiss Army knife on a beer budget. Put it on network w PC and it should find your HD files. There is also a sizable user community working to gracefully help each other and of course professional support. I have a Powernode.
i would not recommend ROON at this juncture, perhaps later after you discovering limitations of BlueOS app, which evolves to look more like ROON every release it seems....
as others have said, the Bluesound DAC while competent is probably the limiting factor an otherwise extremely valuable gizmo
In future perhaps post several threads and break up the questions, especially cables... like grabbing third rail
i would not recommend ROON at this juncture, perhaps later after you discovering limitations of BlueOS app, which evolves to look more like ROON every release it seems....
as others have said, the Bluesound DAC while competent is probably the limiting factor an otherwise extremely valuable gizmo
In future perhaps post several threads and break up the questions, especially cables... like grabbing third rail