My First and Last post for this wonderful community

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@danny

You don’t have to go for the lifetime. We do have a plan for $12.99/month for this exact circumstance where cashflow may be limited.

Money is unfortunately very tight and I don’t want to go out of my way to pay for it right now. Meaning collecting credit debt. I appreciate you pointing this out as I may come back and use this instead of committing to lifetime.

@Roon alternatives

Here are the common ones that are popular:

• Plex (as noted below by @Xekomi, it can be free)
• foobar2000 (free)

There are also streaming services’ apps, but they won’t support your local files, and most won’t support your SM200.

I’ve made note which are free as well. While there is a cost in time/effort to try them out, it costs you no $$$ to give it a shot. You could even use them in conjunction with Roon for no added fee.

This is a great list! Though I am limited since mpd would only available for systems that uses systemd. Which means linux and iTunes/Music have a inconvenience of loading music onto the main system drive. Which means I end up losing storage space which is not something I can really spare. I should have mention most of music is loaded on a external drive in my original post.

I tried LMS, but it seems there is a bit of a learning curve. Which is not a problem it just means I need to invest time into it. Foobar2000 I haven’t looked into yet, but I will give it a try. Thank you once again for the list!