I see. Well I think that most I've seen are certainly "AudioMan" setups at the base. But the various remote apps are fairly user friendly and often mostly icon based.
For players like JRiver, the zone thing is nice, as it allows different streams at different players.
But I'm not the best person to give advice on that. I'm usually the only one using the music server, my wife is happy to fire up Pandora or Amazon Music and let it roll. Our cat is happy as long as it's crooners like Sinatra, Dino, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme or similar. He doesn't like rock or pop.
For players like JRiver, the zone thing is nice, as it allows different streams at different players.
But I'm not the best person to give advice on that. I'm usually the only one using the music server, my wife is happy to fire up Pandora or Amazon Music and let it roll. Our cat is happy as long as it's crooners like Sinatra, Dino, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme or similar. He doesn't like rock or pop.
OMFG Telnet! I haven't used it in years (since it's a security hole in most cases)
Can't you use SSH?
My set up streams the file to the player instead of being a remote control.
I can play music from my desktop through S/PDIF, or I can stream music from my computer to my phone through the internet and play them over bluetooth from that. I like that I can play a song I want to hear if I'm not home.
99% of the time, I'm streaming from DI.FM these days though.
I like being able to listen to different music using Pandora, Tidal Music, etc. Ultimately, I get irritated when it stops playing because of my internet service. This happened when I was still working, so I can't blame it on any particular ISP company.
So, it's always back to the old iPod. Disconnect from the internet. Although, Tidal Music tech support said I could download playlists and listen. Doing that is the same as listening to iTunes on an Apple device...
So, it's always back to the old iPod. Disconnect from the internet. Although, Tidal Music tech support said I could download playlists and listen. Doing that is the same as listening to iTunes on an Apple device...
I figured. I used to use Telnet to log into my Linux box at home so I could chat on IRC at work...
I do, or did. It's now mostly my set up alone since my kids left home a couple years ago. But the set up remains the same: In the main system I use a Raspberry Pi wearing a Hifiberry Digi2 Pro hat connected to a Schiit Gungrir Multibit thru a BNC cable. Roon ROCK, runs on an Intel NUC. Then I have a number of other Pi's running Hifiberry DAC's connected to other devices throughout the house for "background" listening. When my kids were at home they would listen to music either by connecting their headphones thru an Audioquest Dragonfly to their computers, or by attaching their smartphones to a pair of active speakers. You'd hear different tunes in every room as you walked thru the house. It worked really well once I switched to a Mesh Wifi system.
Super happy with my Allo Usbridge Signature on IanCanada UltraCap PSU running PiCore/LMS on NAS. Soundcheck's tweeks are essential!
So is it worth the upfront cost? I keep getting tempted but that money would buy a lot of music...
Yippee, a thread that i understand the words.
Another Pi user here. (Well, on USBridge Sig.)
Streaming Radio paradise a lot, but also youtube and bandcamp.
Play my own music from a NAS type set up.
I control it from whatever screen is on. Phone or pc generally.
Dac is an Abraxalito's Kubelik.
Another Pi user here. (Well, on USBridge Sig.)
Streaming Radio paradise a lot, but also youtube and bandcamp.
Play my own music from a NAS type set up.
I control it from whatever screen is on. Phone or pc generally.
Dac is an Abraxalito's Kubelik.
TBH, I don't know how to answer that question. I haven't compared to any other possible means of implementing Roon, or any other music server software. In relative terms, the cost of putting together a NUC based Roon core is not all that great, compared to an alternative like this:
https://store.roonlabs.com/servers/
Can't see that Roon is worth the cost, it's way overpriced for what it is. There's plenty of other ways to do the same thing, or better.
... Telnet isn't a security issue on a local network!
... Telnet isn't a security issue on a local network!
Typically modern AVRs and alike controllers accept commands sent from several devices with appropriate applications. Eg. Spotify Connect is what we use with the living room system, Yamaha RX-V685. SC works with whoever nearby using laptop or phone (connected to our wifi). TV is connected with e-ARC, so music automatically stops when someone starts to watch TV/Netflix/whatever with picture, controlled with TV's remote. 5.0 Multichannel is activated automatically if signal is DD.
I have installed Yamaha's Music Cast app to my phone to command also our bedroom Yamaha WXC-50 and a pair of active diy-speakers. So far I'm only one using Music Cast, so I don't know how it behaves in multi-user environment. Bedroom TV's optical out goes to WXC-50 too, but most of the time it's sound comes from a single active monitor Adam TV7, connected with RCA cable.
I have installed Yamaha's Music Cast app to my phone to command also our bedroom Yamaha WXC-50 and a pair of active diy-speakers. So far I'm only one using Music Cast, so I don't know how it behaves in multi-user environment. Bedroom TV's optical out goes to WXC-50 too, but most of the time it's sound comes from a single active monitor Adam TV7, connected with RCA cable.
I'm interested, what are the better solutions? Noting that the selling point (unique or not) of Roon is it's ability to untangle really large music collections.
Can you elaborate? Does it do some automatic things to categorize or help search for music?
https://www.stereophile.com/content/roon-18
From above link
Start by typing "Beethoven" into Search, then click on the composer's portrait at the top of the page. Click on Discography, then Focus. You can now filter Beethoven's works by type, performer, ensemble, and many other criteria. Display all the Beethoven albums in MQA (664 of them) or in high-rez FLAC (1183). With just one more click, you can list all available Beethoven releases by Glenn Gould or Fazil Say. In three clicks, I had a list of all the high-rez Beethoven chamber music (216 albums). With one more click, you can bring up a list of all the producers responsible for those recordings.
And that is searching his own collection and Tidal and Quboz all from one point. He goes on to point out that it's not perfect and doesn't always pull in all the extra information like liner notes for you to view whilst listening, but from what I have seen it's the top of the heap IF you have access to a lot of music across many genres. I could of course be completely and utterly wrong (and often am). Heck my normal music search is 'locate X | grep Y' from a command line 😀
From above link
Start by typing "Beethoven" into Search, then click on the composer's portrait at the top of the page. Click on Discography, then Focus. You can now filter Beethoven's works by type, performer, ensemble, and many other criteria. Display all the Beethoven albums in MQA (664 of them) or in high-rez FLAC (1183). With just one more click, you can list all available Beethoven releases by Glenn Gould or Fazil Say. In three clicks, I had a list of all the high-rez Beethoven chamber music (216 albums). With one more click, you can bring up a list of all the producers responsible for those recordings.
And that is searching his own collection and Tidal and Quboz all from one point. He goes on to point out that it's not perfect and doesn't always pull in all the extra information like liner notes for you to view whilst listening, but from what I have seen it's the top of the heap IF you have access to a lot of music across many genres. I could of course be completely and utterly wrong (and often am). Heck my normal music search is 'locate X | grep Y' from a command line 😀
Guess I take the simple route, just Spotify premium on my phone set on max quality to whatever takes a BT signal.
For gym/work I use Sennheiser Momentum 2 buds and Momentum 3 over ears for everything else headphone wise(even for my synth), both have pretty reasonable SQ for the price paid.
Speaker wise it either a set of Edifier S3000pro's(they belong to the synth)or my DIY 18081 boombox fed by a Dayton DTA2.1BT amp, in car a Kenwood H/U which allows full control of your phone on its touch screen like Spotify and Google maps etc(the current project). I dont bother using BT to my HT amp.
I do have 30yrs of CD collection even some vinyl somewhere... don't really own a CD player anymore other than maybe a CD/DVDrom drive in one of my computers 🙄
For gym/work I use Sennheiser Momentum 2 buds and Momentum 3 over ears for everything else headphone wise(even for my synth), both have pretty reasonable SQ for the price paid.
Speaker wise it either a set of Edifier S3000pro's(they belong to the synth)or my DIY 18081 boombox fed by a Dayton DTA2.1BT amp, in car a Kenwood H/U which allows full control of your phone on its touch screen like Spotify and Google maps etc(the current project). I dont bother using BT to my HT amp.
I do have 30yrs of CD collection even some vinyl somewhere... don't really own a CD player anymore other than maybe a CD/DVDrom drive in one of my computers 🙄
Simple is good if it fits the use case. 10 years ago I had an external hard drive and a sansa clip as my digital sources. Then I married someone who loved music as much as me and life got better and more complicated at the same time 😀