![]() I can’t replace everything with a single app. Plex is excellent at video streaming but fails at music. Foobar2000 is excellent at playback and editing but lacks streaming. Roon is excellent with playback and streaming music but it lacks completely the editing capabilities. I use Roon and Foobar2000 for music and Plex for the video. But for some weird reason he refuses to progress. I have almost 9000 albums and their software is very good at the job for offline listening. We don’t want him to be streaming only but offer both of the two worlds. ![]() With affordable storage, you can easily take a library of a few thousand tracks with you.Īnd … you can never listen to millions of tracks. JRiver costs about $30 a year or less (since you don’t need to upgrade every year). If you pay even $15 a month for a service, it’s $180 a year. Your local library of high quality content will always perform better, delivering faster searches and dependable playback even when the Internet is weak, broken, or not available.Ī local library costs less. Luckily, you can use JRiver’s WDM Driver to route any web audio (Tidal or otherwise) through MC’s audio engine. You can read more here: Why Streaming Struggles We’ve chosen not to offer services like Tidal because we don’t think they have a winning business model. ![]() Some of it is Hi Res, and even some mult-channel. ![]() You can choose from almost 3000 curated playlists of lossless music. The good news is that our Cloudplay playlist system is growing and stable. ![]() We’ve heard our customers tell us that they want better streaming. But this seems like a turning point for them, and it’s sad. I used their product for a long time, and sort of feel bad criticizing them here. And they are formally ceding the future to Roon and others. In their latest new release pre-sale email, JRiver (JimH?) once again explains why they won’t integrate streaming services. ![]()
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