How do you use Tidal with you local library?

Plus Roon as some great DSP capabilities! 

OP  I'm about the same age as you and intend to give Roon a try soon with the trial.  However, they just upped the lifetime license cost and, at $699, it takes almost six years to break even vs. yearly.  A LOT can happen in the digital streaming world in six years so I'm not sure it's worth the risk even if your 30. :)  I do expect to find Roon worth the money (yearly) but $499 would have been an easier risk to take.

Mconnect cost $5.99

http://www.conversdigital.com/eng/product/product04.php

it’s like roon lite and works very well.

I have a Bluesound Node 2 and I can choose between my ITunes library or Tidal to play music. I also have the Itunes music files on a Mycloud NAS.

Confused newbie here  I’ve been maintaining an analog system with no digital playback options, and a digital-only system that is my iTunes/Music library. To call the latter a system grossly overstates what it is, but it allows me to play all of my digital music where I am the most: my office, car, airplanes, and hotels.  I am now planning on merging the two as I’ve finally upgraded my analog system to include digital sources.

All of this is to say:

In my mind, what I’d like is to use my hard drive containing the 200+ gigs of music as the center of system. I recently bought the Primare NP5, and will use the drive as a source for that (drive to NP5 to DAC to pre-amp to amp, etc.). 
My question is will Roon software unite all of my streaming options while at the same time allow me to maintain my iTunes/Music library? Will I need that or will it be sufficient to just us AirPlay to stream my music via the NP5?