Today is also a splendid day to reconsider music streaming services

I recommend #Qobuz which happens to be very well supported by #RoonLabs #Roon which is unparalleled for #classical music

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVXfcIb3OKo&t=799s @bennjordan

Fun little Sunday project. I have a Roon Labs server for a music server. I wanted a way my wife could play music without an app so I spent the morning getting this up on Docker on my NAS and now have a web remote that can play on Alexa #selfhosted #docker #roonlabs #audiophile #systemadministrator
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Fun little Sunday project. I have a Roon Labs server for a on-prem cloud self hosted music server but I wanted a way my wife could play music she likes without an app so I spent the morning getting some stuff up on Docker on my Synology NAS and now have a web remote that can play on our touch screen home assistant. I was honestly just thinking about it being a webpage she could use but this ended up being way more useful. #selfhosted #docker #roonlabs #audiophile #systemadministrator 

Anyone who's been in range of my blatherings in the last few years will know that I strongly recommend #Roon as the software of choice to manage, explore, and play your accumulated personal music library (seamlessly integrated with the additional tracks available from the better streaming services) at high audio quality in one to many rooms at home.

Here's a puff piece about an additional use case.

https://blog.roonlabs.com/

#RoonLabs #RoonReady #audiophile #audio

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I have long had a problem with #RoonLabs and #Qobuz including TiVo reviews with some albums. I have also long had a problem with the #ClassicalMusic record labels so often only signing those whom society deems to be attractive to recording contracts. Physical beauty *is a social construct, nothing more. That being said, this #Roon TiVo review of Nicola Benedetti's Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1 is cruel and sexist.
Just realized I can play my #Qobuz #playlists in #Roon. What it does not do is go through each artist/album information page as the #playlist goes through. It seems like common sense that this would be an option, but it's not. It does give you the option to go to the artist or album page for each song on the playlist, but it would stay on that page as the next song began and the playlist continued. I would like #RoonLabs just to add the available option to auto-rotate information pages.

@Debra I started my musical journey in the 60s...the #Monkees and the #beatles ....as I move through my 60s and with the assistance of #roonlabs I return to the 60s to pick up those more outre musical tastes I missed...

#krautrock in particular

@jbm Another reply no longer for Neil, but for others who may find this thread:

The #RoonLabs metadata support is such that artists or engineers in credits, or people or works referred to in text writeups, can hyperlink to those things elsewhere in your library. It's a phenomenal way to explore your music.

If you subscribe to Tidal and/or Qobuz, those streaming libraries are hooked in and feel like your library is just bigger now.

Also: #RoonReady networked audio equipment just works.

@neil Gotcha!

Nope, it's an excellent example of commercial-quality commercial software — one I don't mind paying for, in part because the extreme goodness of the user experience wouldn't be possible without the full-time maintenance #roonlabs do of their backend servers and the extensive metadata they supply.

I enjoyed using SlimServer (initially commercial, then community-maintained) for years, but Roon is way more pleasing and and non-nerd family member friendly.

@neil Now, #RoonLabs caveats relative to your initial wishlist:

There is some communication with Roon's central servers for the purpose of maintaining functionality and doing the necessary queries to pull your music's metadata.

There are dedicated Roon desktop programs for macOS and Windows, but no production-quality web interface.

The Linux server expects to be running on something Intel/AMD amd64ish.

There do exist free builds for Pi streaming audio endpoints!