Roon Update 1.8 - WHY AT ALL?

[evand]

@NOA

Wondering if Roon is able to get the right balance between local library and streaming right as time evolves, and keep a USP.

I’m an older guy and loving to have my own library still. Seems this is not the future, but it still has worth to me. Maybe new generations are different, and Roon needs a strategy to survive for sure.

To be answered in the years to come…

Maybe some of this is relevant to your pondering:

1.8 - The start of a move from a Library system toward a Music Discovery streaming-led future?

I don’t see the issue. Roon handles on-disk music no differently to how it handles streamed content added to your library. Discovery is naturally going to focus on the stuff you don’t have, and Roon can only do that if you’re hooked up to a streaming service. I accept that Roon Radio will of course have limitations when it can’t trawl a streaming service for content to play. What I’d like to see is that those without streaming enabled are not ignored as future functionality is developed. As…