Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 still importing my library, and will probably have a few hours worth of library tweaking..but holy crap this looks to be the software I always wished I had. Kind of a steep per year price, but it's actually the same $9.99 you/we/I spend on Spotify per month. Tidal integration at the start, hopefully other services in the future. https://roonlabs.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 By the time I die I will still never know what you are talking about. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 that's quite flattering. need to have you come out east and we can geek out on this stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Sounds like a good time. Can you explain that in two James Brown titles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 get up offa that thing and try me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 If you don't give a doggone thing about it, I don't mind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frzninvt Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Just got done ripping my 1200+ CD collection to my PC and backed it all up to my external drive about a week ago (what a job that was!) and I have it accessible through my home network to all other PC's, laptops, Xbox 360 and LG smart TV. How is this software compared to my present arrangement? Advantages/disadvantages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswhotakesphotos Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 (edited) Looks interesting! I need to do a bit of CD ripping myself. A long while back, I was super diligent about keeping everything in one spot on my old iTunes folder. Then I got a new computer, the folder got moved to an external drive, I uploaded everything to Google Play, some things are missing somehow, there are doubles and triples of other things, I got an iPad and started buying singles from both Apple and Google... These days, I listen to a lot of CDs just because I always know where they are. There's a lot of cleanup to do that I've just been putting off. So if this can integrate all of those individual messes into one big mess, that'd be great. Edited May 13, 2015 by chriswhotakesphotos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 Just got done ripping my 1200+ CD collection to my PC and backed it all up to my external drive about a week ago (what a job that was!) and I have it accessible through my home network to all other PC's, laptops, Xbox 360 and LG smart TV. How is this software compared to my present arrangement? Advantages/disadvantages. I have no idea. I just started importing my library last night.. i believe its purpose is to give you a pleasant cataloguing experience, solid sonic playback, and to help expose more of your library for playback by tying together metadata that you might otherwise not have known about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USNRET Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 (edited) Looks interesting! I need to do a bit of CD ripping myself. A long while back, I was super diligent about keeping everything in one spot on my old iTunes folder. Then I got a new computer, the folder got moved to an external drive, I uploaded everything to Google Play, some things are missing somehow, there are doubles and triples of other things, I got an iPad and started buying singles from both Apple and Google... These days, I listen to a lot of CDs just because I always know where they are. There's a lot of cleanup to do that I've just been putting off. So if this can integrate all of those individual messes into one big mess, that'd be great. HERE HERE! Please un-junkify my duplicates of triplicates on 3 drives Edited May 13, 2015 by USNRET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 @@chriswhotakesphotos, are you a photographer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswhotakesphotos Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Sure am! Though I'm starting a new job next week, so I won't be completely full time after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 13, 2015 Author Share Posted May 13, 2015 gotcha. couldn't tell for sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswhotakesphotos Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I'll have to start aggressively buying those insufferable "I'm a photographer!" t-shirts they advertise to me on facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnthang Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 (edited) I ripped my library onto hard drive about 3 years ago. As I remember, it took about a week, now I have one copy in my computer, one in external hard drive, and another on a hard drive in my safe. Don't even want to have to do that again. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited May 15, 2015 by Johnthang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnich Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Mr Smith, Any thoughts on Roon? Is this just a music management platform or is it also server software. ? Curious about your impressions. Thx Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Smith Posted May 19, 2015 Author Share Posted May 19, 2015 Both. It handles music management and playback, with tight Tidal streaming integration. I'm still tinkering with it and trying to reshape my approach to playback. Each day I'm liking it more and more. The annual price tag is a big pill to swallow (the lifetime license even more so), but it's not unwarranted in light of all the licensed database access they require for the service to work. I just need to decide if it provides enough added value to my system for it to be justified. Here's a couple of threads on the Computer Audiophile forum, some of which is useful (some of it isn't): http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/official-roon-user-impressions-thread-24430/ http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/roon-labs-software-23986/ And the Roon Labs forum: https://community.roonlabs.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twk123 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 I'll have to start aggressively buying those insufferable "I'm a photographer!" t-shirts they advertise to me on facebook. Nah, its all about the "I shoot RAW" shirts nowadays... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cut-Throat Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) Both. It handles music management and playback, with tight Tidal streaming integration. I'm still tinkering with it and trying to reshape my approach to playback. Each day I'm liking it more and more. The annual price tag is a big pill to swallow (the lifetime license even more so), but it's not unwarranted in light of all the licensed database access they require for the service to work. I just need to decide if it provides enough added value to my system for it to be justified. Here's a couple of threads on the Computer Audiophile forum, some of which is useful (some of it isn't): http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/official-roon-user-impressions-thread-24430/ http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/roon-labs-software-23986/ And the Roon Labs forum: https://community.roonlabs.com/ I have been a 'Computer Audiophile' for over 5 years. I have over 1 Terra Byte of Music ripped to a Hard Drive that I most never Play anymore. Mostly because I use Spotify which has over 25 Million Tracks to choose from. I use a Squeezebox Touch into a DAC. Can you briefly tell me what this service could do for me? IOW ...Is this another streaming service? or something else entirely ??? I just can't understand exactly what this service would give me. Can you explain Simply ? Edited May 19, 2015 by Cut-Throat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Looks interesting... No more ripping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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