Sitting my laptop for example, I can start and stop playback of music started by my tablet as it plays out of my music server connected to my main computer. But the beauty is that you can also do that from any other computer. If you have a display on that computer, you can fully navigate and play your content of course. You then designate one of them as the master librarian that has your audio hardware connected to it. You install one to N copies of the software on every device from PCs to tablets and phones. Architecturally, this is one superb piece of software. On that end, the best appeal of Roon is not what you see, but what you don’t. This will be critical to keeping a PC based system reliable. What I need is something that doesn’t mess with all parts of Windows. I don’t need or want video playback for example. Having managed the development of another complex player namely Windows Media Player, and seeing how hard it was to keep it reliable and performant, I have learned to heavily appreciate simplicity. I know it has immense set of features and I am not giving it a fair review in what I just said. It is a huge piece of software and quite bloated in my view. I had tried JRiver a couple of years ago and immediately dismissed it. So with the build of my new server, I decided to go a new route. Alas that software has been frozen in time for the last decade or so, and does not for a variety of reasons meet the needs of an audiophile or music lover.
As some of you know, my team was responsible for building the Windows Media Player which ships in every copy of Windows. It is the highlights of what I find attractive in the software.
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