Again, lots of great thoughts and discussions. We don’t always need to agree, but facts should play the basis for all further thoughts.
@ged_hickman1 @Danny only elaborated that it is now heading towards 500,000 or even 1,000,000 customers. But he is not in marketing and can only present the high customer growth rate that makes even 400 error reports seem tiny.
@Daniele_Piancastelli and @Mike_O_Neill come from the same stable as me. We feel the need to not be chained and also want to tag freely. One is already done with it because there is AllMusic, the other wants to move on and correct mistakes. Only at the moment when Roon comes into play does it become clear who wants to continue working and how.
Here the Roon community divides into curators (everything still gets the personal touch) and music lovers who are grateful that this labor-intensive job is gone, even if Roon makes/passes on mistakes and AllMusic shows weaknesses across the board.
It would be interesting to see what happens to a curated local collection when read in offline without metadata enhancement. Maybe there is a routine to log in with folder/drive disabled, then go offline, re-enable the folder and never have anything but your own. Just a thought that hasn’t been tried yet.
@Mike_O_Neill is right when he says, then the good/complementary of AllMusic is no longer there either.
@Daniele_Piancastelli Musicbrainz is the most accurate source, but also the smallest and almost dead. Discogs, LastFM, Wikipedia and many others are more alive and more widely maintained. But it’s true that we can’t have everything only in Roon if we want to be safe in the future. Independent tagging without Roon pays off!
@grizaudio is already not interested in keeping local data and into this corner the music industry wants to steer us temptingly. The emergency plan is then the 500 CDs. My way was the digitalization and double solution once with more comfort and once in own fine tuning. Music services die faster than we think. I bring there 20 years of experience and two hands full of dead services. With Soundiiz and TuneMyMusic, that dying has become less critical now, but perfectly no collection comes across the street where the competitor lives.
@Mike_O_Neill do you also know Foobar2000 compared to JRiver? I think Songkong also suffers from the small source Musicbrainz. But it’s not a contradiction to improve an image or lyrics in the file and via Roon. So crowdsourcing is not bad per se, relying only on it would be unwise.
@Jazzfan_NJ Hyperlinks are the new approach that is flushing brand new players into the premier league in the Linux world as well. What used to be done by amarok clementine tomahawk is now flowing into players like Cantata or Lollypop. Just the last gnome player close to Roon, but only if there are not more than 50,000 music titles to manage. This is true for almost all players and management programs. However, we should acknowledge that Qobuz is further in the metadata Tidal. If you go deep into a genre, you will fail not only with jazz. Only with the well-known names there is a lot.
@RobOK good continuation of the discussion from a different perspective. This is how our gray matter gets to thinking. Unfortunately, none of us nor the Roon team remain free of errors in thought and action. Corrections and wishes will haunt us until the last music track we will hear in this world.
