Not a question of being cool, just a question of snarking that this isnāt something ābigā without being gaslit by demands to clap like the marketing monkeys would like us to.
Edit, since the above apparently offended sensitivities: I get that management demands Brave New World type happy-happy clappy-clappy compliance here, so have a great time reporting and keeping them happy.
Oh, I donāt have a problem with it per se - I have a problem with it being presented as anything significant at all, when core functionality is essentially being left to rot and Harman (or should I say Samsung) is happy to let customers play tech support.
You know what Iād call āsomething bigā ? Any of the top requests, or even a damn answer on any of themā¦
Roon has time to integrate some irrelevant service, but in the meantimeā¦
Podcasts has been a feature request for the better part of a decade.
The most requested feature, i.e, ARC for Desktop (that I read as a merger of the mobile and desktop clients, something that in my mind should always have been the case) is three years old.
Family accounts, which requires no expansion of the workforce, is six years old. Atmos playback ? Five.
Thereās no automatic fallback for those cases when Cloudflare goes down, because itās totally normal to expect a non-technical consumer to understand that one button transparently uses the internet while the other doesnāt.
So yeah, Iām with yall: clap, clap, clap, weāve got something ābigā coming. Itās an anecdotal streaming service.
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Maybe itās Qello and not Nugs?
I find it disturbing that so many have posted that they donāt care about live music. What? Anywho, for as many shows as Iāve been to and as much as I believe there is just absolutely no better way to enjoy music, Iām not sure I care about this integration.
My fave shows are the small, sweaty, often obscure shows, too many to listā¦
Here are five great ones that all should recognize:
Jean-Michel Jarre- Rendezvous-vous Houston
Prince- Purple Rain
Bruce- Born in the USA
Smiths- Queen is Dead
U2- Joshua Tree
The reason I ālikedā one of the posts that expressed negativity about this isnāt that I question the value proposition of nugs. I just have zero interest in paying for a subscription to nugs and then using Roon as an interface to it. If nugs is interesting to me, Iām going to just use nugs directly. No amount of Roon integrating it with search, library management, or whatever else can convince me otherwise because I am, as the idiom goes, āonce bitten, twice shyā. Roon has too many problems acting as an interface to Qobuz for me to think I want to add more underlying services. It has a bifurcated model (Roon and ARC) for home vs. away. It canāt download cloud content for online. It canāt show me new releases at the time they become available. It is constantly having one problem or another syncing favorites, playlists or whatever.
Right now, Roon on iOS is constantly crashing for me when I click on songs found in search. This is a known issue and has been for weeks. As long as stuff like that kicks around in the apps for extended periods of time, I am deeply uninterested in new content sources being added. Get the apps to an exceptional state, address the outstanding issues that span networking, content management, cloud integration, database corruption, etc. and, if you add a new content service at that point, Iāll have a very different reaction.
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. Not Dad Rock and not 40 years old.
This was a much better post than your first one, your POV is more clear (even if I donāt agree with each point). I keep coming back to find out what the big news is. If its Nugs, great, i will check it out. If itās not, they should have course corrected a long time ago. So agree with your point that its not clear how this ābigā news fits with long outstanding requests.
nugs.net just sent out a promo for half off ($99 USD) for a yearās subscription.
Might be a good time to sign up if youāre eager.
Wow! Saw Jess Rosen live at Swansea University (or, it might have been Bangor) way back in the day!
Upcomming āSomething bigā is not so important to me as Iām completely new to Roon, which is something big anyway.
I never forget the experience of my first Frank Zappa concerts in the 70th, because they were like from another world compared to all others at that time.
Saw the Motherās Of Invention in 1967 at Expo in Montreal. Brown Shoes Donāt Make It.
Lots of great shows at Expo 67 - first Dead shows (well 2nd counting Place Ville Marie show)
Jefferson Airplane as well at PVM.
Something bigā¦ 
Mine does not work anywhere but inside the house soā¦!
