Roon has changed how I listen to music - in a good way. When it’s working, which is most of the time, I wouldn’t want to live without it. I’m running the core on a Windows machine, using iTunes as a local repository and Tidal for everything else. Listening over wifi using older Airplay receivers; MacBook Air, iPad Pro, iPhone clients. As minimal a rig as you can get, getting Red Book quality playback.
As a former software developer and software quality guy, it’s clear they do NOT test their releases well. I used to make the mistake of blindly taking upgrades when they came out. Wrong move. I’ve had my installation go down for up to a week with no apparent sense of urgency from them. I found their crowd sourced support unhelpful and God help you if you try to get to Roon staff for help. I’ve had to uninstall and install from scratch a couple of times.
And having said all that, Roon is still great. Wouldn’t recommend it for anyone that doesn’t have some system/network administrator chops.
