The files I suppose could be attached to that same computer via an internal or USB-attached drive, but my preference is a separate file server (NAS). Roon also requires some hardware changes-you need a good computer to run your Roon server on, preferably not a laptop, but a small yet powerful and energy-efficient you can leave running all the time. I assume other services work the same way. Qobuz integrates with my collection, and it appears as a separate section of albums beneath my own. With Roon there is no question-your ripped files are fed to your renderer(s) at the highest level they can accept, complete with a graphic that shows you the complete digital chain between your files and the renderer. 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.
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