Roon? (vs Sonos)

cgori

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Oct 2, 2004
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SF, CA
Anyone have/use Roon at their house? I have 2 pieces of Sonos gear (Connect for living room and a Play:5 for the master bedroom), but Roon has been mentioned to me several times in the last few months as an alternative. All of my music is already on a NAS in MP3 and FLAC format, and I might be able to run the Roon server on the NAS as well. Roon can stream to the Sonos hardware but I'm really curious about how the Roon app is. I find the Sonos app pretty easy to use, though their playlist management is a little weird, and the shuffle capability very weird.

Main downside of Roon: it doesn't integrate with Spotify yet (Roon has some kind of relationship with Tidal for the hi-res tracks - my living room stereo could handle hi-res, though I've yet to actually find some tracks to compare so it's hard to know if it's really worth it, and all my ripped stuff is 44.1/16 FLAC). I could switch to Tidal but it looks like Spotify has more tracks available by a decent margin.