Current quality of Rune

There was a thread like this awhile back.  I picked out a few features in the ROON interface that I found really helpful and that I liked. I ask the question what other streamer apps have these features......Crickets.

I have a lifetime roon subscription. I guess it will continue when I die for the rest of my family.

I don’t like the file Manager system, it’s difficult to work with. Communication with a PC dermatologyfrom the nucleus Device is really difficult and the interface for this is requiring very sophisticated PC skills. Also the organization of albums I wish were more flexible rather than just throwing them all out there in one massive Collection of album cover pictures

I love commentary on so many individual albums and is blown away by the extent of information available. And it’s really quite good content.

Love to know how those with 1000 albums organize all this stuff Beyond just alphabetical.

If you never need Roon support them it's great

If you do you will discover it is the worst support model that has ever existed for a service that you pay for .

Thankfully I found Innuos Sense.

Everything Room should be with amazing support 

Roon support sent me on a 2 yr wild goose chase only to then tell me Room could not handle my library ...

This after I purchased a nucleus at their suggestion. They then refused to refund my $$$$ 

Terrible company 

Canceled my Rune, I mean Roon, free trial. I really like the program, but I don't think I could get it to sound as good as my Innuos streamer and Sense software 

I did see that my Innuos streamer has an experimental mode that would use Roon software, but use the Innuos player software.  Might get good sound quality that way, but I'm good with the Sense software, so I see no reason to try it. 

It's not only Roon that has a sound type, in my experience it's the OS type and setup that Roon operates in that affects Roon's final sound.

Until recently, Pink Faun used Euphony as their OS. This OS offers many playback setups including Euphony's own Stylus and Roon. Roon didn't sound nearly as good as Stylus in this setup.

Recently Pink Faun wrote their own OS with dedicated drivers to talk directly to their output cards and set it up so the heavy requirements of Roon search and playback were managed properly. Now Roon sounds better than Euphony/Stylus and will be their standard for their streamers going forward.

Roon is really the pinnacle of music discovery and management, it is acknowledged as the best there is with many hifi brands licensing or pre-installing it into their machines. The main problem with Roon is that it usually sounds only mediocre for higher end hifi enthusiasts. But it can be made to sound good if it is setup well in the correct OS, something difficult but worth doing.