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

I've even bought an 8 terabyte hard drive and connected it to my Bluesound

In your current system, Bluesound should work fine. After you've accumulated a lot of music on the drive and your music library feels large and unwieldy, that's when you'll appreciate Roon.

mspot

You're correct.  I'm just getting started with this streaming thing, and I needed a simple slam-dunk application.  I'm not much of a guy for burning cd's and putting them on a hard drive just yet...we'll see how that comes along...but it's nice to have the capability anyway.  I only bought the hard drive because it was only $200 for 8 terabytes, I can't imagine ever using that much storage.  Mostly I listen to Tidal, Amazon and Napster on Bluesound...I listen on Pandora on my Sonos.  I'll only make copies on the hard drive if a recording on Tidal doesn't measure up to what I know what my cd sounds like.  Maybe in a couple of years I'll come back and take a look at Roon.

i just decided to take the plunge (after so many friends/hifi buds urged me to do so, seemingly forever) and so will be trying roon out for the next several weeks, and i'll report back my learnings and experience after some time

my sense is it is a luxury -- a slick and well designed convenience, makes something we can do using other methods easier and done ’all in one place’, with the benefits of more handy side-info about the music (metadata, lyrics)... not quite as good as having lp album art or cd foldout for musicians on each track etc etc, (that is where blu os is quite weak... minimal zero info of that type there)

i am coming from blu os, which is really not bad and let’s one do much of the important stuff that roon lets us do more easily and more elegantly

that said, there is definitely a non trivial cost to this luxury, in the subscription and also the add’l hardware needed, so each of us has to assess whether the added expense is worth what it provides