It doesn’t reorganize files or create sub-directories. What may be most remarkable about Roon is it fixed all the issues I had with organizing a huge media library without changing a thing. Roon takes those digital files and folders and translates them into this interface. And I think it’s likely that you can’t either. The thing is, I just couldn’t understand what Roon provides until I tried it. I absolutely get the myriad of concerns regarding the price and what Roon provides. It turns out that Roon was exactly what I was looking for but just didn’t know it.įrankly, the cost always put me off trying Roon.
#AUDIRVANA VS ROON TRIAL#
I even subscribed to the automatic bliss metadata updater and after a few months of hard work with it, I made some significant improvements to the state of my music library.Īnd then I decided to try out the free trial of Roon. Digital files just don’t give the same experience as vinyl.Īs a lifelong music collector, I have an enormous digital music collection that is always in some sort of state of ‘work in progress.’ I’ve explored many options for better metadata naming, organizing, and collecting album artwork. It caters to the folks who have been long-term collecting digital music, or who have converted an extensive CD collection into digital files. If you are a dedicated Spotify or Tidal user and have little locally stored digital music, Roon may not be for you. It’s a hard pill to swallow for iTunes, Audirvana, Kodi, or jRiver Media Center users. You must provide your own music library or subscribe to a compatible online service.Īnd yes, it does cost as much or more than many of the online subscription services.
#AUDIRVANA VS ROON SOFTWARE#
Roon is subscription-based music playback software that, unlike online music service subscriptions (like Spotify, TIDAL, etc.), contains no music. The Roon software evolved from the Sooloos music server software originally launched in 2004. Roon Labs was born when Meridian Audio launched it as an independent company in 2015. Roon is a perfect solution for those of us with large and unwieldy music collections. Those who want to play music across multiple rooms and devices.Those audiophiles who like to see that they are receiving the highest quality audio signal.Those who enjoy discovering connections between artists and hearing new music (sometimes hidden in their own collection) discovered through deep-level immersion.Those trivia buffs who value learning more about the artists and their music.Those who want to easily play an automatically curated (genre-related) ‘radio station’ from their music collection.Those who value organization and artwork but don’t want to spend countless hours organizing, renaming, and updating files.Those with massive digital music collections.Oh yeah… and I’m a recent Roon convert! Do you love the tangible experience of vinyl? How you interact with your music in a physical sense? Who Is Roon For? Although my limited budget often makes those choices difficult. Significantly perhaps re Roon’s interface, I don’t stream online, only from my own local store.I should mention that I’m a guy who always appreciates the free or low-cost option, but is not averse to paying for quality. As for sound quality, my own use of Audirvana is different, using it as a renderer feeding by USB direct to a DAC, not using it as a UPnP server. In particukar Roon was not as good as Audirvana for music with poor or missing metadata, which is a problem from which my collection suffers. I prefer Roon’s interface 100 times more than Audirvanas.Īs far as sound quality, to my ears I found there to be no difference at all.Īlthough I use Audirvana in preference to Roon, I don’t much care for Its interface: indeed its latest incarnation to me was a downward step - however, I didn’t find Roon an improvement despite its cost, the features that Roon fans clearly like not being beneficial to me. Roon’s is much more logical, more about the artist and the music and the formats. I found Audirvana’s control software to be clumsy (especially in the distinction between Qobuz and Local) and the experience to be iTunes like - not in a good way. Everything was equal except the server software (and remote software control). I did A / B testing between Roon 1.7 Core and Audirvana 3.5.
#AUDIRVANA VS ROON PRO#
Audirvana was running on the same system as supports my Roon implementation (a dedicated 2017 Apple MacBook Pro 15” / 3.9Ghz quad core Intel Core i7 running MacOS X Catalina with 16GB RAM, 512 GB SSD / USB 3.0 direct attached Seagate 8TB (160MB/S) Music File Store through Audioquest Jitterbug). Music (a selection both hi-res and cd-quality FLACs of local origin as well as from Qobuz) was sent to the NDX2 from Audirvana as a UPnP stream. I used the Audirvana remote app on iPad and sent a set track list to my NDX2, which is connected to my 252/SCDR/300DR B&W 805D3 Prestige Edition set-up. Last night I set up Audirvana, pointed it at my NAS library and my Qobuz subscription.
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