Roon
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Roon identifies your music files and streams, and then overlays a ton of rich metadata to add context to what you're listening to. That information drives Roon's unique experience of browsing, discovering, and organizing music.
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- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Synology C2
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lofas7777 added Roon as alternative to ATLAS Audio Player
Azrul added Roon as alternative to Aideo Music Player
Rod Leviton added Roon as alternative to EKO Music Player
c17s5qhu added Roon as alternative to SoundCrowd
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A Few of My Favourite Thangs (Master List)
Greetings. Welcome. Let us Begin.
This is list is brought to you by Nemesis. And this music is brought to you by WinkiesPlace.
"WinkiesPlays," ... cut to old style radio commercial in the middle of a baseball game for WinkiesPays - 'the fun and friendly socialiste party all your friends are joining. What are you waiting for? Join the party!!!' ;) {Sam Roberts plays the coke stage at the Calgary Stampede - the crowd sings along "S-O-C-I-A-L-I-S-M it's the only way!" - 'Do they even know what they are saying?' someone wonders with an incredibly direct and intense query straight into my face. I'm not sure what they want but it seems my very barest and darkest soul is on the line as their eyes bore into me from 600 feet overhead. Sam Roberts wants something from us this evening, and it's supposed to be obvious, simple, effortless, easy as singing along to a catchy little song, it's a solid point, I know that for sure, what it is... i haven't the foggiest.}
On we go...
A few reasons this list exists:
Primarily - I am trying to prepare, publish, market, etc. a musical project I've been working on for the last little while. To get a T-shirt design up along with a sensible artist bio and some quality 'finished' music is the goal so that the project can be advertised and funded and then finished and released for you, the glorious interested public, to sink ur dirty little bloodsucking teeth into ;) but i have autism and add and a bunch of other seriously cute disabilities that have been... anyway, stuff gets tough sum times, even with all the privileges of my particular identifiers, whatever, point is I'm just trying to get shit done as best and fast and effectively as I can lol.
Secondly,
I'm trying to migrate to a Linux desktop as my main rig ASAP from Mac and using this list as a way of making it as seamless as possible. I just want to run Windows and Mac VMs inside the Linux setup - just to have them available - rolling of the eyes - ...this migration has been started and stopped and left some version of my productive, creative self in some kind of hellscape limbo, feels to my nervous system a bit like what I imagine the Shrike's Tree of ??? (look up) to imbue upon it's Users.
Criterion: (very rough, but also extremely specific lol) ... A Multi Platform/Open Source/Privacy Focused as Possible Tool Kit
Follow along as the story jumps from here to there, platform to platform, like Mario and Luigi chasing that ever receding Peach.
... a list in progress. (aka check back ... you never know where or when the story is going to update itself ;) best thing to do is... whatever u want lol
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Install from the command line
winget install -e --id RoonLabs.RoonServer
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Roon Labs LLC Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
One time purchase that costs $830, and / or subscription ranging between $13 and $15 per month.Rating
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It's not just music player, but also complete online and offline music manager, all in one tool for music library....
An incredibly expensive service that has zero support, and is generally not very good at what it promises to do.
After buying roon labs I found it just crashes constantly, I tried to go to the support with the errors logs, but the staff just ignore support requests. The only support you'll get is from the community, which just tells you buy different hardware. So when the issues persist with different hardware you just get ignored.
The main draw of roon is a music player that can "just works", that takes your whole music collection and lets you play effortlessly with smart playing system that ties all your music together and automates cleaning up your collection. However roon is terrible at these things. Plex does what roon promises to do much better, and it ten times cheaper. Plex allows you to add your entire music collection to the library, adds album art, artist art and biographies, lets you play from any device anywhere, both locally and through the internet, and again is ten times cheaper. So as a roon lifetime owner at $830, I struggle to understand the point of roon. Roon is just terrible at being a music player. It's "inteligent" feature Roon Radio, which is meant to seemlessly pair your music so that when you play a song it intelligently finds more music from your collection to play is just no better than shuffle. It pairs heavy rock with soft trance, it pairs EDM with a cappella. I've never seen such a terrible "smart playlist" in a player let alone something that costs $830. A decade ago I used to use the free Audio Galaxy which had a flawless equivalent, I also used to use Pandora around 20 years ago which was pretty much flawless at pairing music, so I don't understand how much an expensive player does such a terrible job 20 years later. I'd recommend anyone thinking of getting Roon, just don't. Try Plex Amp instead.
I will never know if I like Roon or not, because I'm not willing to give any company my credit card data just to start a trial.
if you're looking for a music player with elegant UI on Linux, you have to keep on searching, because roon does not provide the client for Linux - only the core
The best music player in the world and anyone else will agree with me when they use it. However, it comes at a hefty price of $500 or about $100 a year for an annual subscription.
Seems complicated with much overhead. You may need a training course in order to know how to use it. It is a monster that will need to be tamed. That being said, for a rich audiophile I am sure ROON would be a cats meow at over $500.00 for a lifetime license for just one account playing. The rest of us peasants will have to look around to find an alternative player we can afford. I can afford applications like J-River for instance. I have read that it does a decent job. For the rich people with $50,000 Speakers and $100,000 Pre-Amps / Power Amps / DA converters / Streamers the $500 bucks is pocket change. Wooooohooo! I am happy for them.