Can’t see apple buying Roon. But being added to the platform yes.
I doubt Apple sees either Qobuz or Tidal as a viable enough threat to acquire a partner of theirs in hopes of putting them out of business. Conspiracy theories much?
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I don’t see this being any big western service at the moment, maybe an odd small player from the west, but I feel the main one will be from elsewhere as they are pushing big time with regional localisation of Roon and this would go hand in hand with that to gain a larger market share out of the western and English speaking world.
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In what way(s)?
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If I had to guess by being purposefully device and platform agnostic, and not trying to tie you up in such things as proprietary file types and so on?
As Miguel mentioned above, “Roon is not about content, it is about metadata and aggregation. Apple Music is by and large about content.”
Apple wants to own and then “rent out” it’s content. Or at least be some kind of a middle man.
Presto Music has launched a streaming service for classical and jazz music:
https://www.prestomusic.com/streaming
One of the key features in my opinion is that they compensate music producers on a per-second streamed basis, thereby making it fairer to those producing long pieces of music such as classical and jazz.
I would also expect that the content will be of great quality, and the metadata would also be more carefully curated - and possibly Roon would benefit from this as well.
Are there plans to incorporate this service into Roon?
(Sorry if this has been discussed, a quick search didn’t show anything)
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BTW Idagio streaming does that too…. Very good Classical catalogue
I’ve sent them an email saying that statement of only service paying by the second is false. From the Idagio website
“ All artists on IDAGIO benefit from IDAGIO’s Fair Pay Model: audio stream revenue is calculated not by stream but by the second, making for a much fairer remuneration model, and 80% of net profits from IDAGIO Interactive go directly to the artists.”
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Ah yes, forgot about them. Part of their business model, if I understand correctly, is the deep metadata. Maybe they would like to serve that themselves instead of via Roon?
I don’t think there’s any integration between Idagio and roon.
I think the Primetonic (I think it’s called) and Apple Music will be integrated into Roon in the future. Judging by the language Eno used.
I think that’s what they call motivated reasoning.
Sounds very good, but don’t leave Tidal out,- I have a very good deal with them.
A dedicated classical music service would be nice…
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Brian Eno?
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A new streaming service named Presto Music, which especially streaming for classical and jazz music is officially announced.
https://streaming.prestomusic.com/
Powered by Prestomusic itself, the leading eCommerce site for classical and jazz recordings in UK.
Will it have a chance to cooperate with Roon in the future?
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Hahaha… I was going to make that joke… Enno Vandermeer, some big wig with high heels at Roon.
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Just trying out Presto streaming now. Seems to be well thought out and I hope there will be a place for it and it can succeed. Not certain how well it would mesh with Roon but might be a nice idea. First reactions are good.
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Think he said this was a winter residence. There’s gold in those advertisements…
I don’t think the numbers that Roon has even show up on Apple’s radar. Or Spotify’s. Not worth killing.
Qobuz may be worthwhile if it has substantial market share in countries not well represented in an acquirers market share…