Replacing Roon - What Should I get?

I have never been a Roon user.  I have seen it used.  It appears to help organize large collections and also suggest new music based on listening algorithms.  It also provides liner notes type information on the recordings.
   That was exciting stuff but as with all digital technology it is only a few years before the competition emulates it.  Particularly if one is using a streaming service, the service software has similar functionality.  Roon may still have a niche organizing and integrating a hard drive with music along with the music pulled from the streaming service, so it all resides in one place.  Personally I’m ok with having those files in 2 areas, but I understand the appeal.

  I can’t address the SQ issue from experience but I have seen enough written about potential SQ degradation with Roon that it discouraged me from ever becoming a user.

I was having occasional hiccups while using Roon with my desktop acting as the core so I went with the sonic transporter also mentioned previously. It has been very stable. It’s about half the price of the newer Roon nucleus. FWIW I have it hooked up by Ethernet to a dcs  rossini

I have 2 innuos streamers, a zen in the music room and a pulse in the living room (mapped to the zen drive).
the sense app is similar to roon in that it displays online albums of the same artists stored locally, and
offers suggestions for similar artists. Roon is better in some ways, sense is better in others. one hiccup
is when the tablet(android) wakes often the app freezes and needs to be restarted but it always finds it server.

I too am at my wits end with Roon- same scenario - for years it continually hangs up- suddenly drops out, requires a long slow reboot, endless issues. Yes, I've posted in the thousands of pages of Roon support - that should be the first warning sign btw- and get hundreds of suggestions and Roon's own tech support ineveitably wants two pages of technical details from me, ip addresses of everything on the network, rebooting protocols etc- and - it never solves the issue. All devices in my system are Roon certified - and still hang up. 

I too just went completely hardwired from the router/modem directly to the Roon nucleus and my Lumin P1 is hardwired - and- I even now harwire my macbook to the ethernet- so- how is it and what is it that causes Roon to freeze, drop out and take 15 minutes of restarting, quitting, rebooting the nucleus and the lumin, only yo have it happen again randomly an hour later? It's the most frustating ongling issue- meanwhile the "back up" Blusound set up I have to maintain ALWAYS works, never, ver drops out or hangs up. And. It doesn't have an annual fee. 

Hi 

I also tried the nucleus and it to was an issue. I’ve been running RoonOS on a i5

Asus for the last 3 years and it’s been rock solid. I tried other library solutions and always come back to Roon. It is the standard. If your budget can manage it, this would be my recommendation.