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Roon: is it just a pretty face for browsing music?

I’m curios about getting Roon and using it to integrate with my Bluesound player because BlueOS kind of sucks. 
I use Qobuz as my streaming music choice but wanted to know if there’s another reason to use Roon versus the BlueOS. 

Is it just a pretty face where you can read about all the artists and albums because actually in don’t really care about the band members or anything. 
Is there ways to find new similar music to the one your listening to, etc? Or similar artists?
todd1010
mike_in_nc
1,162 posts
 
Mostly, yes. But not just pretty -- functional for those who want to find things in Tidal or Qobuz (which are badly indexed for classical music) or who want to find things in their own local libraries and who haven't made sure they are tagged well.
todd1010 OP
74 posts
 
So I’d have to have my iMac which is connected via wireless with the Roon running on it and then I can have my Bluesound player which is hardwired in another room and this would work?
djones51
4,947 posts
 
As long as they are on the same network it should work. You need a good robust wireless or you might get occasional drops. 
audiojedi
225 posts
 
BlueOS is definitely the best free interface I've used you should definitely give Roon a trial if you are finding it lacking.

Upsampling makes it more than just a browser and I did find the sound quality to be superior versus running the Lumin app on my Teac NT-505 even with the upsampling feature turned off.

Pretty sure I have a free 30 day trial code that came with my yearly subscription you're welcome to it if you want.
hudsonhawk
137 posts
 
Roon lets you aggregate from multiple sources into a really polished, user-friendly interface. It also gives you an incredibly flexible DSP that lets do things like, for example, transcode all PCM audio (including from streaming sources) to DSD, or vice versa.
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