To ROON or not to ROON ?

I am thirsty for new music and knowledge about artists and music I already know. I have a large collection of soundboard concert recordings not available on any streaming service. Roon & Qobuz gives me simple integration of my library with streamed library. The user experience I find is more submersive than Audirvana+, Amarra, Lumin and others I've used before. Musical discovery, credits, grouping 19 versions of Kind of Blue, etc. are all intuitive and encourage more engagement. Roon is the only software that I ever could call fun.

In the year or so I've used it, they're twice made significant improvements including just adding mobile offline access. I'm pretty happy using Roon & Qobuz. 

Cheers,

Spencer

Finding plenty of "new to me" on Qobuz without paying someone for questionable "tips." That said I mostly listen to local files, off network.

Plenty of good stuff to "discover" there.

For just over $100 a year what’s not to like there isNothing even close it even learns your type of music and will play mixes on its own , for information about groups and songs loaded with information it is interesting and is built to use HQ player which isa great way to get your music to sound to your taste.

Just paid for a lifetime subscription.

Have had all the software combinations spoken about above by others. But just wanted to stop fiddling and have perfect integration with superior meta integration. Roon fits that bill.

I only use it on one system, without a streaming service. Unlike my Apple computer gear, Roon just works.

+1 sbank

My story is much the same - loads of concert and other source material not available through streaming services on local storage, with a Qobuz subscription for high quality material. The two independent sets of material coexist seamlessly through my Roon library and I coudn't be happier with the ease of access to it all.

For those with both local storage and a streaming service subscription, I'd highly recommend trying the free Roon trial offer.