Quite right! It was a perfectly reasonable and polite request to place your comments in the appropriate thread ⌠and sadly there are plenty to choose from if youâve only got criticisms to make and enjoy doing that in a way which helps no one other than to work yourself and each other into a fever pitch of negativity (without so much as the basic details needed to help if they are genuinely seeking it)
Inevitably there will be those who took this posts as an insult or invitation to drag the discussion into the gutter. As my mother used to say, âJust smile nicely and keep walking by, unless they really want helpâ.
As for me, Iâve been a happy Roon user for about a year or so, and donât regret paying for lifetime subscription from the get go. The only problems I experienced were due to ignorance as a newbie, and I received prompt and helpful advice from many other users.
Coming from Sonos, it not only confirmed that my allegedly âbeyondâ use Zone players were still good for years to come (even at performance levels way exceeding the crap direction Sonos is heading towards), but also reminded me of the joy I used to have listening to and discovering new music. As an early Sonos adopter here in the UK (back when they valued their customers) I fell in love with streaming from Pandora, only to sadly have to plug pulled on their service due to rights issues.
I was borderline obsessed with âowningâ copies of music stored locally, and initially struggled with the concept of paid streaming services, especially as there was just too much to choose from! It became a pain to find what music I was in the mood for.
Ironically I ended up with so many local files that I developed indecision-itis and frustrated navigating my local library (can you believe Sonos never featured a ârecently addedâ or ârecently playedâ list to choose from!)
Then I discovered Roon, which not only brought all âmyâ music together in one place, irrespective of where it came from or which streaming service, it served it up in an immersive, visually pleasing and aurally inspiring way, with gorgeous, dynamic artwork and biographies and album reviews and credits with links to other artists, making my listening a journey of discovery. WOW!
Then I discovered that it also has a Pandora-esk algorithm which serves me up new music after my selected tracks had finished - OMG I was in heaven. And to top it all off, unlike Sonos (yet again) it even allowed me to listen on devices that are also used to control âzone playersâ like iPhones, Macs, iPads etc as well as playing nicely with all my old and newest Sonos devices and my new Chord Poly/Mojo as both an endpoint for active monitors or a âhead-Fiâ set up on my collection of cans!
Is it perfect? Probably not. Do I care? No! Iâve bigger things to worry about, like recovering from serious ill health and endless hospital admissions, or a global pandemic that has ruined economies, peopleâs jobs and killed countless people!
Why have I never had any technical problems? Hard to say, but Iâd hazard a guess itâs because I run it on a dedicated Mac Mini, local files on Qnap NAS, connect as many devices as possible over Gb ethernet, use a solid 24 port switch and have 3 Ubiquiti UniFi access points dotted round my house and have Fibre-to-the-home internet access, so itâs all rock solid and trouble free.
Iâm also happy to help anyone who IS having technical problems however, but they will need to give enough information to help identify the cause and try to stay calm and respectful (however frustrated they may have become).
Apologies for such a long and overwhelmingly positive post. I of course respect anyoneâs right to identify as a disgruntled Roon user