To make the music better organised and present as a kind of ‘journal or magazine of music’ with bios, concert dates and reviews, as well as search capability, which is bar none by the way, requires heavy processing. Is a progression of the NAS approach, and how come? Well, because of……. Shops perhaps, admittedly cheap as chips to Audiophiles. Austere functional looking peripherals in computer Similar hard drive with the media server mentioned. On an NAS – Network Attached Storage drive.
I mean sleek, if you didn’t get my point.īut along this journey, to stop expensiveĬomputers frying their own chips over long listening sessions, we put the music We’ll come onto why in two shakes of a lambs tail, but in this context, Roon positions itself as the sleekest of the sleek in user experience. Roon changed all this and guillotined conventional use of media servers for serious audio lovers. Endless messing about with changing the file data (called metadata) to ensure servers presented albums to liking. Streaming was more at infant school then. Ten years ago audio forums were tediously awash with debates about which media server offers best flexibility – Minimserver, Twonky, Asset UPnP. Like the BluOS app of Bluesound in sync with a Bluesound Node 2i streamer. In between, a tablet control app, or other means of control from a laptop etc, does the playback jiggery pockery. The streamer is but a slave to music organisation in this universal plug and play (UPnP) approach of streaming – being subservient and told to ‘do as I say’ as UPnP renderer. Just like how music is stored on our computers. It packages the music in a folder tree structure which determines how the HiFi streamer dishes up the music to search and play. By streaming computer hard drive music over your network by fixed connection or wirelessly, you submit to the media server software on the hard drive. Playing music from file containing storage drives is, let’s face it, a staid and boring way of displaying and interacting with your tunes. Over the network digital streaming application that can be used across multiple Missing anything without Roon? Plus what gear do you actually need?įirst though, what is Roon? In short, it’s an So here goes….I lid lift technicalities and use plain language. Interesting as some might think you need to be, to get your head around streaming, let alone go to higher echelons with Roon.
The urban dictionary says Roon is what you call your nerdy or dorky friend. No, No, No, not round in a Scottish accent, Roon is for your HiFi and has had its fifth birthday. Everything you need to know about Roon to get going
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