demnächst soll wohl die neue Software 'Roon' auf den Markt kommen, die von der Firma Roon Labs entwickelt wurde. Hat jemand davon schon gehört?
Was ist Roon?
Wer ist Roon Labs?Computer Audiophile hat geschrieben:Roon is a complete music player software for library metadata location/identification, browsing, playback control, and streaming. Roon software allows for multiple simultaneous users, control points, and endpoints (multi-room, multi-control, multi-user playback)
Roon Labs ist wohl ein SpinOff der Software-Sparte von Meridian, die das Sooloos Mediasystem entwickelt haben. Mit Meridian kenne ich mich leider nicht aus, würde hinter dem Namen aber Top-Qualität vermuten.
Quelle: http://www.twice.com/news/financial/mer ... roup/56615
Was ich besonders interessant finde, ist, dass die Software eine PC-Lösung anbietet, die eine ausgefeilte Integration der eigenen Musiksammlung mit gängigen Streaming-Diensten (Tidal, Spotify etc.) bietet, etwas, was ich bei jRiver schmerzlich vermisse.
Hier mal zwei Youtube-Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dlawHfO8sM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmf00DrTak4
Wie funktioniert Roon?
Was haltet Ihr davon?You will install the Roon Labs app on on a computer somewhere in your home and tell it where all your music is in the home. It will build the database out of all those files and this becomes "Roon" in your home.
The app on this computer will recognize system sound, usb, pci, airplay or roonspeakers devices (this is our protocol, like airplay, but made for performance audio, in doing high res and clocking from the the destination device, not the sending pc.) You will select which of these you want to be available as Zones in Roon.
Roon can now act as a self-contained system of the Roon app, the Roon library, the computer, and the audio devices.
To go a step further, you can tell your Roon to accept remote control and then install the app on other devices throughout the home and access your Roon remotely from Mac, PC, iOS and Android.
From here you pick which Roon zone(s) you want to control, browse music, and play.
This works for multiple users at the same time.
If a device is acting as a remote at home (say your laptop) and you go on the road, you can go to settings, and tell it to act as Roon and build a library of your files on the device or your Tidal subscription. Then when you get home, you can make it a remote again.
Übrigens soll die Software wohl während der High End in München offiziell vorgestellt werden.
Viele Grüße
Matthias