Roon 1.8 Music Management, Discovery, and Streaming Platform
$9.99/mo., billed annually; $12.99/mo., billed monthly; $699, lifetime subscription
For readers who are unfamiliar with Roon, it is an application that claims to be “the ultimate music player for music fanatics.” Roon accomplishes this in several ways. First, it unites home libraries and streaming services libraries from Tidal, Qobuz, and Dropbox into one comprehensive, cohesive, and completely searchable library. Roon's latest version, 1.8, finally makes finding music, both in your home library and Roon's supported streaming services, almost as easy and intuitive as grabbing an album off the shelves. And while longtime users won't find radical changes in the layout, ergonomics, and playback methodology, they will discover that Roon now uses its troves of meta-data in a far more feature-rich manner. (315)…
