Actually, now that I think about it, I will start using Audirvana 3.5 (which I own) over UPnP to my dCS Rossini Apex. It works fine and the Audirvana remote isn’t bad at all.
And there’s also dCS’s Mosaic which sounds amazing and can play Qobuz, Tidal, and local files served by Minimserver. And it supports Tidal Connect and Spotify Connect (hopefully if and when Spotify goes lossless, they will add such support to Mosaic).
One issue I have with Apple Music is that, although its probably the service with the most tracks, my list of albums added as faves is a mess and not nearly as complete as Qobuz and Tidal. I could use Soundiiz to transfer my Qobuz and Tidal faves but I have not done so yet.
Maybe I am just lucky that none of my gear is dependent upon Roon, I had two pieces of equipment that were Roon Ready and I was late to the party and now if the party is going to be over prematurely ……. Que Sera, Sera
Like the Boy Scout in me required, hope for the best but plan for the stuff to go sideways.
After following this thread for a couple of days, it hit me that some folks are responding to this news as if someone told me my favorite restaurant is closing down and I immediately shift to a plan to grow all my own vegetables and raise my own animals.
I wasn’t in that group but I respect those people who thought they needed it. Unfortunately it seems like it has been a poor return on investment for many users and obviously cost Roon loads of cash and time. The smartest thing an entrepreneur can do is know how to admit to a failure, cut the losses, move forward. Not every idea is a success, Many can’t do that.
Same. I would have preferred Roon to robust its core platform - giving us adjustable menus and UI, better use of screen real estate, album shuffle! and plenty of other small things that would make the base experience better for us home audiophiles, which is the raison d’être of Roon as I was originally sold.
Not the right thread to discuss ARC, but aside from app specific issues, you need to consider that ARC depends on a multitude of external parameters (home/mobile internet connection bandwidth, reliability & speed).
And since PLEX does it with both movies & music (but still depends on the same external parameters), I think ARC does pretty good so far.
Yes, I was never wanting a mobile platform especially a wonky fidgety one. I have that base well covered with simple robust solutions that don’t require that I leave a nuclear reactor running at my home. K.I.S.S wins hands down for me at least.
Yep, when ARC came up, I always asked myself “Why? For what?”. There’s no real HiFi coming out of phones. And the whole roon universe is about HiFi only, and beyond.
They still have some core things to fix. And I tend to say “Fix the basics, before you follow new visions”.
Hi Danny,
I agree not to have a “hissy fit” over something that won’t change. Roon’s data policy has been perfectly fine so far. Now that a company like Samsung is the owner, it’s a different story and I, like many others here, don’t want to give Samsung any more data.
In times when everyone shares their lunch on their social media accounts, this is perhaps really idealistic. But at least I’m trying :).
