Roon (Music Player) Reviews

Funkwhale Reviews

Roon (Music Player) mentions (47)

• What do you guys use to play music on the go?

  I also use Roon, which is a little complicated to describe here. Basically I have my own home server with music on, and then I can use the Roon ARC app to access it on the go, similar to above (and is similar to PlexAmp mentioned elsewhere here). Source: almost 1 year ago

• Better sound than AppleTV 4K driving KEF LS50Ws?

  You might want to give roon or audirvana a try. Source: about 1 year ago

• Just bought a house with multi room speakers. Help?

  You may also want to look into Room depending how far down the rabbit hole you want to go https://roonlabs.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks

  Roon handles metadata and relationships between entities the least bad of anything I’ve tried. It’ll do things like link covers and live performances of the same song together, or let you group multiple issues of the same album and switch between them. It’s not cheap, and it takes some effort to fix some bad source data, but I’ve found it very rewarding and get a ton of enjoyment exploring my library now.... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• iOS 16.3 Code Reveals Apple Continues to Work on Classical Music App

  Take a look at Roon. It's pricing and mobile limitations are disqualifications for me, but it's tagging is simply phenomenal. Source: over 1 year ago

Funkwhale mentions (38)

• Ask HN: Feedback on this proposed funding model for supporting musicians?

  For context: I recently set up a Funkwhale[0] instance [1] for Communick subscribers, where people can upload their music collection, stream on mobile/web and share with their friends. That's useful already and can be thought of as a replacement to the original Google Play Music, but I guess that those with large music collections will either just play from their dedicated devices or self-host a service like... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Favourite music streaming service?

  I use my own service, but have heard great things about https://funkwhale.audio/. Source: about 1 year ago

• What 'selfhosting' solution is for me?

  I run Funkwhale. I can listen to my songs online from the browser, or on my phone using the Subsonic protocol (I use an app called dsub on Android). Source: about 1 year ago

• I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

  For multi-room-audio, I use Iris+Mopidy+Snapcast [2] alternative frontend to my Funkwhale library. [1]: https://funkwhale.audio/ [2]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Looking for a simple audio hosting solution with comments

  I hear funkwhale can also do comments. Worth checking it out too. Source: over 1 year ago