It caters to the folks who have been long-term collecting digital music, or who have converted an extensive CD collection into digital files. If you are a dedicated Spotify or Tidal user and have little locally stored digital music, Roon may not be for you. It’s a hard pill to swallow for iTunes, Audirvana, Kodi, or jRiver Media Center users. You must provide your own music library or subscribe to a compatible online service.Īnd yes, it does cost as much or more than many of the online subscription services. Roon is subscription-based music playback software that, unlike online music service subscriptions (like Spotify, TIDAL, etc.), contains no music. The Roon software evolved from the Sooloos music server software originally launched in 2004.

Roon Labs was born when Meridian Audio launched it as an independent company in 2015. Roon is a perfect solution for those of us with large and unwieldy music collections. Those who want to play music across multiple rooms and devices.Those audiophiles who like to see that they are receiving the highest quality audio signal.Those who enjoy discovering connections between artists and hearing new music (sometimes hidden in their own collection) discovered through deep-level immersion.Those trivia buffs who value learning more about the artists and their music.Those who want to easily play an automatically curated (genre-related) ‘radio station’ from their music collection.Those who value organization and artwork but don’t want to spend countless hours organizing, renaming, and updating files.Those with massive digital music collections.Oh yeah… and I’m a recent Roon convert! Do you love the tangible experience of vinyl? How you interact with your music in a physical sense? Who Is Roon For? Although my limited budget often makes those choices difficult.

I should mention that I’m a guy who always appreciates the free or low-cost option, but is not averse to paying for quality.

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