To each their own and maybe Iām missing the point, but wow, this couldnāt be the farthest thing from whatās needed in an audiophile / HQ music player IMHO. I guess if roon wants to be a lifestyle product full of social media have at it.
Social media is the bane of modern society on so many levels, it couldnāt go away soon enough.
BUT seriously whether running , driving or sitting in a plane how much music do you want
In my car I have 160Gb MP3 on an iPod everywhere else I have 256 Gb FLAC on my phone and I think I am mad to have so much. Do I really want to pick my favourite of my 40 Moonlight Sonatas versions when puffing and grunting up a hill (presumably on IEMās) ??
Data must be cheap where you live it certainly isnāt here.
A much better use of dev time would be to have a sync ability from my library to my SD card , now thereās a feature request (Just like JRiver has had for years)
Thatās your opinion, which is fine, I couldnāt care less about syncing to an SD card. Simply because you donāt need something doesnāt mean itās not a valid use case for other customers.
I for one would prefer something similar to what Mario has suggested, access to my whole library. Not because I want to listen to 11k tracks at a time, but because Iād like the ability to stream any song from my library that I feel like at that point in time. They could limit offline listening to synced playlists, I myself donāt mind either way.
I hope Roon will add the possibility to access my Library when I am not at home too.
Just for this reason I bought a Plex license a few months ago. Though I like Plex for the snappy and fast iOS app (even on a cellular plan) and the Sonic Analysis, nothing beats Roonās āmeta connectedā Library.
So, when Roon add āon the goā I would welcome that.
Besides that I hope playlists will get some love too.
Iām glad you mention it, which makes me wonder why you reacted to his opinion in the tone that you did. Your reply made the idea behind his post seem like something outrageous and completely out of the ordinary (in a time when streaming and therefore access to a near infinite library from anywhere in the world are pretty much the norm).
While you have a 160GB iPod (I have one as well, and I love it) and your music collection on your phone, not everyone wants to maintain different services / libraries / etc. Maybe they have a great data plan but little local storage, who knows.
I would love to be able to use Roon (with little to no limitations) in all facets of life in the future, including streaming my complete curated, local library.
I have commented previously on āRoon Mobileā, as you say all use cases differ. I am retired and have the time to sit and listen on my main system. When I worked , the latter years were in a big open plan office my constant companion were the iPod and noise cancelling headphones
I live in South Africa where our mobile data costs are extremely high so the thought of calling home to download what I can copy to an SD card wouldnāt occur to me.
I have been campaigning for classical box set mods for years , to no avail, hence my vote would go there.
I can see why mobile would appeal , but not for me , sorry if I sounded a little aggressive I meant to be more sarcastic
Yep, data streaming cost can vary greatly. Used to be limited for me in the US, but lately I have an unlimited data plan (that is cheaper than my prior plan with limits). They can throttle my speed if my use gets excessive (constant streaming of 4K movies all day long). But streaming audio is not an overwhelming use of bandwidth.
p.s. Iām like some other users here, that get my away from home access via transferring albums to my iphone (I can have 100s of albums this way, with 512 storage), or more likely I simply use Spotify when out and about and download a few things when getting on an airplane, etc. This said, if I could stream roon from my local library to my iphone, I might sometimes do this for certain albums. I wouldnāt need to plan ahead to copy things to my phone.