With Foobar2000 are you playing lossless music streams for free? You must be playing your ripped CD's for free.
After 4 years of using ROON my lifetime license is essentially free for me now. However, even if I had to pay I would for the following reasons:
- Great eco-system of gear that is ROON READY. So I can easily distribute my systems all over the house. I use Sonore Rendu products for the streaming work.
- Great client GUI available in many device types (mobile phone, computer, tablet)
- Great discover feature in ROON. Most have this but ROON's one is what I know and like. I keep adding albums everyday based on the AI based recommendations.
- Ability to up-sample though I do not do so yet and it maybe better to do it in a DAC (due to network transportation issues with large data streams)
- Ability to run convolution files to taper the sound curve (bass) for your room. I plan on doing this with my next speakers which will be in a small room. JRvier is the other software that I know supports this. I plan on outsourcing the work to create the convolution files to professional sound engineers. They will do this with my microphone based sound measurement of the room.
- I actually pay for both Qobuz and ROON this year. I may continue to use both since I like how they play on ROON.
After 4 years of using ROON my lifetime license is essentially free for me now. However, even if I had to pay I would for the following reasons:
- Great eco-system of gear that is ROON READY. So I can easily distribute my systems all over the house. I use Sonore Rendu products for the streaming work.
- Great client GUI available in many device types (mobile phone, computer, tablet)
- Great discover feature in ROON. Most have this but ROON's one is what I know and like. I keep adding albums everyday based on the AI based recommendations.
- Ability to up-sample though I do not do so yet and it maybe better to do it in a DAC (due to network transportation issues with large data streams)
- Ability to run convolution files to taper the sound curve (bass) for your room. I plan on doing this with my next speakers which will be in a small room. JRvier is the other software that I know supports this. I plan on outsourcing the work to create the convolution files to professional sound engineers. They will do this with my microphone based sound measurement of the room.
- I actually pay for both Qobuz and ROON this year. I may continue to use both since I like how they play on ROON.