I wrote up a “cost displacement” theory, which I find more practical and actionable than spdiscusding whether Roon is “worth it”:
People sometimes bring up the issue of Roon’s price, some complaining it is high, some (including me) defending it as a bargain. I have been thinking of a more constructive way to think about this. On the occasion of the two-year anniversary, I thought I should share it.
It’s centered on what you would spend your money on. I first had this insight a long time ago when I was moving across the country: I was looking at one neighborhood, closer to the city but expensive, and another neighborhood f…
And in that thread, I discussed the value of a well-made “meta-service” — it’s about enabling “serendipitous discovery”, which is clearly a value beyond providing the content itself:
Robert, let me illustrate by reiterating a few stories I have told before. (And contra @Sallah_48 , it is not about the obsessive virtual music collector. In fact, I strongly disavow that: I do not want to be a librarian or curator, I do not spend time polishing my metadata.)
It is not about the metadata but about what the metadata allows you to do, and what it allows you to do easily, casually, following whims.
In 2011, I read that Paul Motian had died. Motian was a bad-ass, he broke new groun…
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