Just found one of the relevant staff posts here:
Also recommend to read @grizaudio‘s follow-up answer to the above post.
Since Marin is using DSP, and since he changed the DSP engine along with Roon, it’s definitely possible for objective differences to exist, and it wouldn’t be an apples-to-apples comparison.
Missed the dsp. Please disregard the question.
Given the fleeting auditory memory, I neither do, nor expect to perceive a difference.
That said, it actually feels much better, since those disrupting artifacts are gone now!
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Thanks, this sounds appealing, how do I set this up?
Here’s another basic feature I always missed with Roon, who didn‘t think it‘s worth their development resources:
When playing internet radio stations (Groove Salad Classic in this example), LMS is able to retrieve covers, background info, link to library and Qobuz tracks and albums, as well as related artists and their releases.
Not much of a gap to Roon‘s rich metadata experience, really.
This is so fantastic, I can‘t believe I put up with Roon for so long …
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I don’t use radio stations, but have moved to LMS for my local and Qobuz collection, the integration is very good, but it is less forgiving of metadata ambiguities, ie Lamb of God, Lamb Of God, lamb of god, would all produce separate artists in LMS, Roon is more intelligent in that regard IMO and would group them together.
As long as your library is tagged effectively, I prefer LMS.
I run it and Plexamp off the same NUC with no performance issues. And ran Audirvana too for a while til I removed it.
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I am also running Plex server and LMS on my NUC and all have their strengths.
Overall I am very much enjoying using LMS, having mainly used Roon and PlexAmp in the past.
As you mentioned the quality of your metadata is the biggest hurdle to a fully integrated Library. I have not seen things like this since I started using Sonos in 2006 as everything else has fixed it in the background. I am surprised there isn’t a Metadata improver for LMS (or I haven’t found one), but I have been working my way backwards through my library using MusicBrainz Picard to update the library data. Mostly that has been a good experience, but you have to keep an eye on it as I have had the odd disaster when I wasn’t careful in checking what albums had been picked.
yep, that is exactly how my library was until I fixed it with MB Picard, I use an older version that I prefer that still works.
I don’t add the MB IDs do you?
Sometimes, it’s better with LMS to do a full rescan after mass editing of metadata, I don’t use favourites or anything like that so a fresh library is no hassle.
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I like how LMS also shows my Qobuz library where I have the same release as a version I own. Qobuz plays effortlessly to whatever endpoint I choose.
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Looks the same as in Roon when „Show hidden files“ is set to Yes?
Yes, Roon does the same
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IMHO roon search and playlists are much superior to lms but the sound, meh. I need to investigate further backing up in lms. I have been able to create bookmarks in lms as that was a very important roon feature for me. I’m also experimenting with jplay.
Alternatives and choices are good to have, I personally don’t use search or playlists, but yes, Roon’s search is excellent.
I have a simple usage case, I just queue up albums that appeal to me at that time and listen, I don’t use playlists either.
I am still a beginner with this and I have only updated a few hundred albums, but so far yes I replace everything besides the image and the file name as that way I can get back when I have the occasional total screw up from Picard.
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The Biggest LMS issue for me is the lack of music discovery.
Navigation is also lack lustre to say the least.
There’s no music discovery in LMS natively.
As for navigation, you can use any number of controllers and themes and also edit your experience to suit.
It incorporates Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, Spotify and many other sources via plugins, including Bandcamp.
If you don’t like it then fine, but it has many ways to edit music sources and the experience, to improve music discovery.
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I absolutely second @Grasshopper’s view.
Plus, I’m using Qobuz app more these days to enhance discovery some more.
But, and that’s a big BUT:
The biggest Roon issue I have is, that they’re reluctant to fix long-standing and acknowledged deficiencies in core functionality, but rather exhaust all their development time on bells and whistles.
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Agreed the database side currently is a mess and really has too many problems that software this old should not have.
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