Software for offline playback?

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I know this is the Roon forum but I’m glad that JRiver hasn’t totally vanished into obscurity. I upgraded to 33 a while back and realized I had been using them 15+ years. That’s an insane longevity for software. I will admit that I do not use it’s library features anymore. That’s not to say it’s not great at that, because as some of you ‘nerds’ have pointed out, it’s customizable to your hearts content, just it’s maybe a bit ‘too’ hands on for many users.

I feel like JRiver doesn’t really step on Roon’s toes, they have starkly different philosophies and user experiences.

Nowadays as I said, all JRiver does is present video (the video library stuff is handled elsewhere, the JRiver renderers just get told what to play). I’d actually love if they provided a stripped down, playback only client for this but alas.

Anyways, OP should definitely look at JRiver but I feel as though it’s understandable if it’s not what he’s after.

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I ripped 700 CDs and have them available via Roon. They are also sitting in Apple Music so it was easy to transfer all to my iPhone

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I rip my domestic music in FLAC onto my NAS but create a MP3 version (of selected stuff) that goes on my iPhone for playing in the car or when we’re away from home. It doesn’t need to be lossless/HiRes all of the time

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I have a core library on a 1 Tb SD card in my Android phone and USB Player Pro feeding BT to Sony WH 1000 MX4 , beats ARC into the ground !!

Runs for the car and holidays etc where I am away from the main library