Hi, I’m trying to devise a software playback system that will be an alternative to Roon—should it fail, I lose the internet connection etc. Suggestions? Requirements: I only care about playing local files, streaming services not particularly important. Serve music on my Synology NAS and run it t…

Do any of these other alternatives offer something like roon with its convolution filter? If so then room correction is easy. Eq can help but not as nice.

Yes. These are all the usual suspects, but some of them (I hear) don’t meet my little-tinkering requirement.

My advice is if you are worried about losing your Internet connection, purchase a second/backup connection. How often do you lose your internet connection and when this happens approx how long is the outage?

From my experience I am more likely to lose power than my Internet connection. But i can imagine other areas are less stable.

[image] shankha: Yes. These are all the usual suspects, but some of them (I hear) don’t meet my little-tinkering requirement. Tinkering is relative.

My experience with Audirvana and DSD has been it can only catalog a limited number of DSD files before it can complete the catalog process. In my case it never finished. As such it is less than useful for me. I gave it weeks to try to finish and it never did. It uses a lot of processor while doing …

Reviving this topic given that some think that Roon’s days are numbered (in it’s current form at the current lifer price anyway). For the mildly tech capable who can build a server and install/configure opensource programs, who want to stream from Qobuz and local files (DSF included), any favorite …

Wait what? I’ve been away for a while. Why are Rooon’s days numbered?

[image] Roon Acquired by Harman International (Samsung) Network Audio Well, that’s the end of that. The infamous acquisition to oblivion strategy.

Alternative to Roon

Network Audio

tomhail November 28, 2023, 12:15am 19

The infamous acquisition to oblivion strategy.

Topic		Replies	Views
Roon 2.0 fails without Internet. Anyone with alternatives for DirectSteam DAC? Network Audio dac , bridge-ii	26	2070	October 19, 2022
How Are You Playing Digital Music? Network Audio	36	1782	December 14, 2020
Roon, JRiver Media Center or Other Music Software; Which Sounds Better (When and Why?) Network Audio	55	19619	January 9, 2022
Technical and Subjective Differences Between Roon and JRiver Media Center Network Audio	21	4743	March 21, 2022
Roon vs. Audirvana Network Audio	37	2349	August 22, 2025

Alternative to Roon

Related topics