Popular Post katools Posted September 25, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted September 25, 2022 With Roon 2.0 mandating an active internet connection to listen to ANY music including that stored locally and their persistent failure to address architectural and functional shortcomings: no true user profiles no distinct user libraries inability to properly deal with box sets inflexible genres radio/dj relying on poor or inconsistently assigned genres & ignoring unidentified albums inability to assign track genres inability to assign scores to albums and/or tracks inability to point other users to an artist, album or track on Spotify you think they may enjoy inability to create community with users having similar tastes inability to copy/paste any text into clipboard inability to add revews where there are none or to replace reviews with your own or another sourced elsewhere inability to disable reviews no dynamic playlists no Deezer, Spotify, Apple or Amazon music interface forced library rescan every time you restart Roon no support for WOL no Web client no native Linux client no support for Wavpack As much as their underlying playback engine is excellent, the user experience is way too limiting (and they clearly don't care to enhance that). Couple that with the notion that you will not be able to listen to music if you have issues getting online and their stated intent is to further dumb down local functionality in favour of shifting it to the the cloud and it's abundantly clear Roon will not be able to serve my medium or longer term needs. I feel like the time is now to to look for an alternative. It's a really pity the open source community has developed 100's of players/ library managers, reinventing the wheel over and over. Imagine what could be achieved if a pool of motivated music lovers that happen to be developers combined their resources in creating an open source replacement leveraging Musicbrainz & Discogs along with user tags/edits. I would gladly donate cash to such an endeavor. Mauidj7, MarkHH and One and a half 1 2 Link to comment
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