Feedback Needed: Music Sources Survey

We want to hear from you! We're running a short survey to better understand how our community listens to audio at home. If you listen to music services, podcasts, physical media, TV or anything else, come let us know. It only takes a minute or two. Your feedback genuinely helps us improve WiiM for everyone.

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[Aquaman]

Part of the reason I prefer using Roon to manage my personal collection nowadays.

-Ed

My perception of Roon is that it is for folks with many different sources in order to bundle them.
For an isolated local library I consider it useless, unless the user isn‘t capaple of managing his tags and doesn‘t know how to utilize them in a server software.
How do you use it?

 

[EddNog]

My perception of Roon is that it is for folks with many different sources in order to bundle them.
For an isolated local library I consider it useless, unless the user isn‘t capaple of managing his tags and doesn‘t know how to utilize them in a server software.
How do you use it?

I like the processing functions, which I use Roon to play both, my local library as well as streaming Qobuz. For both, my speakers and headphones, I use it to apply Album-level ReplayGain to everything, so it minimizes the need to adjust volume (I listen to a lot of mixed-track playlists, rarely play through complete albums). Additionally, for my headphones, it has an excellent Crossfeed function. I also use the in-built PEQ for very tiny adjustments to my headphones, and for my speakers, I have a special Late Night PEQ Profile which essentially applies a fixed, Fletcher-Munson-style adjustment so that when I listen after my kids go to sleep (their room is directly on top of my speaker system) at only 45-55dB, it remains as clear as when I listen (without PEQ) at daytime levels (65-75dB average).

Roon itself is very content-oriented so it brings up really interesting stuff about the artists and the albums, which I frequently will read while listening. It also brings up lyrics for most songs. The lyrics and ReplayGain features don't exist at all in Qobuz when using Qobuz Connect, but Roon pulls it all up when streaming Qobuz.

-Ed

 

[Aquaman]

I like the processing functions, which I use Roon to play both, my local library as well as streaming Qobuz. For both, my speakers and headphones, I use it to apply Album-level ReplayGain to everything, so it minimizes the need to adjust volume (I listen to a lot of mixed-track playlists, rarely play through complete albums). Additionally, for my headphones, it has an excellent Crossfeed function. I also use the in-built PEQ for very tiny adjustments to my headphones, and for my speakers, I have a special Late Night PEQ Profile which essentially applies a fixed, Fletcher-Munson-style adjustment so that when I listen after my kids go to sleep (their room is directly on top of my speaker system) at only 45-55dB, it remains as clear as when I listen (without PEQ) at daytime levels (65-75dB average).

Roon itself is very content-oriented so it brings up really interesting stuff about the artists and the albums, which I frequently will read while listening.

-Ed

Ok. I can see that it does give you quite a bit of added value. I have have no need for any of that though. Also, I like to keep things simple. Don‘t wanna have to ponder on ‚how did this work‘ after I haven‘t used it for a month or two.

 

[s3igell]

You have misread my post. What Bluesound and others make of your collection by building up libraries from reading SMB shares is ghastly. Not your library as such.

Oh, but my library IS ghastly... I use Roon to "semi-tame" it, but also Plex and Minimserver just so I can see how WiiM handles them...