What's All The Fuss And Big Deal About Roon About Roon Being A Must-Have??

I for one have never called Roon a "must have." I agree that it's more about music management and for me, with ~ 500 CD's ( I don't remember, don't count them) plus Tidal plus favorite Internet radio stations I find the metadata management and integration with Tidal just outstanding.

Yes, I can listen to all of my Peter Gabriel tracks, but I can also bring in music I don't own, or I can start listening to 1 artist and end up discovering lots more.

I also really like the DSP capabilities, and multi-room synchronization.

That's what I think it brings and makes a subscription worthwhile for me, but would I try to upsell it as THE feature you must have?  Nah. 

Ditto mlsstl.

Not worth it.

sonic79

Thank you for the confirmation. 

After setting up the Bluesound Node (setup was a breeze), it seemed I already had all of the features that Roon offers....without a monthly fee.  I'm good.

You’ll probably get a number of responses, but no matter what anyone says here, pro or con, no matter how much research you do and no matter what people tell you, the only way to answer your question is by trying it for yourself. (They do a free trial.) The reason is that it probably doesn’t *do* anything that you can’t already do. I considered it for a few years and couldn’t figure out why I would need it. It turned out I don’t need it. But I’m doing a trial now and I love it. For me, it’s mostly a way of organizing my music, but Roon makes it brilliantly easy. Radio, stored files, Qobuz--all in sight and all ready to go. Give it a try and see for yourself; there’s no other way to know.

Edit: I was writing while erik_squires was posting. Basically: what he said.

I was an early adapter of Roon and had a Roon Nucleus and one of kids took it to University.

Bought a Node but had a lifetime subscription to Roon and used a laptop as a core just fro streaming. Blue OS is okay but preferred Roon.

Moved away from the Blue OS Node and now have a Bel Canto Stream and use the Seek application on my I pad with Qobuz and I am happy.

Roon is not all that but then again we will see after the Fall update.