
Plus, it's not like that piece of crap JRiver where you have to dink around with all kinds of settings so maybe you end up with bit perfect audio at your end device. I will take its minor quirks in order to know I'm getting the best possible digital signal at my players. I tried Roon at that point, and while it still isn't ideal, it is far and away better than anything else I've used. I knew a DAC/streamer upgrade was on the horizon, so I decided I'd make a Really Big Change-I got the DAC, and dove into Roon. What really threw me over the edge was Qobuz coming along, and having no way to play it through my main system. I dabbled in a few others with their trial versions but they were no better, and I didn't like the way they cataloged my collection-it was not intuitive and they seemed to ignore the ID3 tags I had painstakingly applied to all of my rips. It also could not play back my music gapless-major flaw. It would crash two or three times per day, regardless of which OS I ran it on, and through countless versions I tried. The way I was using them was through an Oppo BDP-105 fed by JRiver. I have thousands of discs ripped to my media server, which I started doing back around 2014 or so.

I wasn't sure about Roon either, and I'm a classic cheapskate.
