“Apple Music, for example”
I must say I love this bit
We cordially invite all KKBOX users to join our exclusive early access testing program, where you can actively contribute to the seamless integration of KKBOX with Roon. By participating, you’ll be part of an esteemed group with privileged access, allowing you to identify and help us iron out any bugs, test exciting new features, and enhance the overall user experience.
But at @Jim_F said maybe the Roon guys do know when to come in from the rain and there will be a queue of KKBOX subscribers jumping at the chance to join this esteemed group.
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I was just quoting your rain comment as I thought it was quite witty 
The rest is my own warped views!
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A significant proportion of tertiary educated populations in these countries (and certainly the target market for Roon) would have, at a minimum, an ability to read English, even if they struggle to speak it fluently. I would have thought that the technical issues would be the same.
Actually I asked this question to the CEO when he did an interview. There is healthy conversation about it. Apple music is great with CarPlay functionality. But I have Qobuz and Tidal as well.
It hit early access today. Probably not good to use as your primary Roon experience, but you can see progress if you are willing to weather “beta” quality software.
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Thanks for multi languages support on Roon Metadata recently, it is great for me to see the integration of KKBOX and I can’t wait to try it out, thanks.
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Because if you’re an Apple Music subscriber, for example, you don’t want to be forced to subscribe to Qobuz or Tidal to benefit from Roon’s extensive features.
No one is being forced to subscribe to anything.
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Yes, a smart move in my mind. The services that you mention really wouldn’t attract fresh customers and a new revenue stream for RoonLabs. It would be primarily appeasing a selection of the existing customer base. I personally have zero interest in adding Apple or Amazon to the list of services because I don’t currently subscribe to either of them.
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I doubt the areas covered by the new service have Qobuz coverage
ASFAIK its Europe US, Canada Australia, is it even NZ
So Korea etc will get a service good luck to em
Hi from NZ. We have Qobuz down here : )
I’ve had Quobuz in Brazil for about a year now, just as I had Tidal, AM, Amazon, Spotify, Primephonic (before Apple shut it down and used it to come up with a lousy new Classical App) and Idagio. I should add that it is a very well designed version of Quobuz, with tailored magazines and info on the rich brazilian music scene. Really good, well crafted and only costs about 4USD. Unfortunately, Roon integration (at more than 3 times the price) cuts out these interesting Quobuz features. It’s good to know that Roon is expanding to other markets, but I guess it ought to become less north american/north european focused, including its search engines and indexing system. Native english speakers need not worry. After all, the Vinshine Audio’s and a lot of the most advanced and inventive hifi gear of this world are in Asia and communication is not a problem. Is it? Cheers
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I am also a Qobuz (and Tidal) subscriber in Brazil. I enjoy Qobuz’s curation of Brazilian music, which, as you mentioned, suffers somewhat when using Roon. I also enjoy the fact that both Qobuz and Tidal (as well as most other music services) are significantly less expensive in Brazil than in North America, where my subscriptions were once based. I welcome Roon’s decision to expand its reach globally, both through languages other than English and through providers based in other parts of the world. I’m fortunate enough to speak a few languages, but much of the world isn’t. Not speaking English shouldn’t be an impediment to fully enjoying Roon.
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Yes, and as the link I posted says, the license conditions include:
As a starting point, the Grateful Dead, a granddaddy of music sharing (called tape trading back in the day) says this:
• “No commercial gain may be sought by websites offering digital files of our music,
whether through advertising, exploiting databases compiled from their traffic, or any other means.
So, whether Roon may include them is not clear
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Roon wouldn’t be giving access to anything, the Internet Archive has already opened up access to this content to everyone. Roon would just be providing a mechanism to play the content back on specific equipment.
Yeah, I think so too, but on the other hand Roon is not a website offering digital files. The website would be archive.org, I guess. Anyway, like I said when this first came up, this is something for the lawyers. Open licenses are a complex topic
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Sure but the question was whether Roon could include the archive, and the metadata - we are in the “new streaming services” thread
@Robem , the thread is “New streaming service(s) coming in 2023”. Try streaming without Qobuz or Tidal (NAS is not included in this topic). Why be so difficult? I rephrased my comment so you might understand. Cheers.
Subscribing to an entertainment/media streaming service is totally optional to all of us, this is a hobby and none of us are forced to do anything. I’m not sure it was necessary to edit the post but…. whatever. Please try to not make this personal though, I wasn’t intending to be difficult.
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