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Replacing Roon - What Should I get?

I'm tired of Roon having brain farts.  I have an original Roon Nucleus and have updated and augmented the Memory.  This helped for a bit.  But now, I keep having to reboot the darn thing.

It's not my network.  I have checked it out and everything in the house works fine.

Here is the setup.  A direct fiber optic link goes to the Router.  Then ethernet to Roon from the Router.  This way I get Roon to talk with the setup upstairs.  I have an 35 foot ethernet cable that runs through the walls directly from the router into my dCS Lina.

I want to replace the Roon.  I am thinking about an Innuos Stream.  Just need a streamer that can hold Roon/Tidal.  Don't need a DAC as the dCS does that quite well.  I have a SSD in the Nucleus that holds a ton of my music that I want to move over.

Thoughts on what to replace the Roon with?  Innuos (Stream) always get bandied about.  I hear about Arender as well. I don't want to get an updated Roon.

I also wonder about deleting and reinstalling the Roon App on my iPads.

Thanks in Advance

pgaulke60
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audphile1
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I’m circling back to JPLAY features once again. 
Great - love the UI. Easy to use and after I shut down roon core - no dropouts. good information on most popular artists, same as Qobuz or Tidal

Features I miss -

1. Playing an album is much like playing a CD. When it’s over, the music stops. In comparison, Roon continues with the “like” selection of music using Roon radio feature. This is awesome for music discovery, missing in jplay

2. I use 2 devices - iPad and iPhone. If I start playing a selection using one device, it’s not reflected on a second remote. I don’t think it’s particularly difficult to fix but would be nice. I’d like to know where in the album or a “radio station “ I am…what’s playing. 
 

3. the MQA playback is missing 

4. sorting artist albums by popularity - missing in jplay, would be extremely nice to have

Is it a justified balance between features and sound quality? With these streaming apps you get either the features or the sound quality. Lucky for us, both are relatively close. So it’s up to individual user to make the choice. Be ready to accept a compromise. 

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shinemaster
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Good luck @pgaulke60 I am a happy JPLAY user. 
@marcin_gps there is one thing I wish and hope JPLAY should implement. 
- Search 🔍 section should be move to top middle with little bigger section like Google.com. When I hand the app to my friends with my tablet everyone says where do I search. 

Most of my audiophile friends are using Roon, and let me tell you, every time we gather Roon always gets brain fog.. just happens.. 

 

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jbuhl
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@jbuhl 

What is a SGC ST?

Little dedicated Linux based device for running the ROON core only. 

https://www.smallgreencomputer.com/products/sonictransporter-i5?_pos=4&_sid=605a54238&_ss=r

Advance to 1:00 minute mark for a rundown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkGGZckumA

 

lanx0003
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More and more end users are reporting that, in terms of sound quality, QC > Native App >/» UPnP/DLNA > Roon. Volumio might be an exception so far.  So what should replace Roon - QC, or, if you are a Tidal user, TC?  Unless you have a large local library stored on an SSD/server, although native apps can handle that as well.

QC also has a pretty good search engine and autoplay feature, which has helped me discover many albums and titles worth exploring.

 

antigrunge2
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With all the issues highlighted above InnuOS Sense seems the only sensible (aheeem) option

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