Whether it’s worthwhile to you depends on your habits. Can only say that for me it’s more than worth it even if i had no local music. Like last time we discussed it
Even if I had no local music and only streaming, Roon would still be worthwhile for me. Not sure if you followed the link at the end of my post that I linked above, to the older post. Only one item of my “like” list in the older post is related to local music, the others are valid with only-streaming as well (or even more, as with local music you can achieve much by file tagging, though laboriously, while you don’t have this option with online sources)
E.g., rating music more finely grained tha…
Among my favorite 8 reasons for Roon, only one has something to do with local music:
It’s not so much, I spend several times that on Sky & Netflix. And I do because there is no other remotely as useful solution that lets me …
… have streaming content and ripped files in one UI. (And I have a lot of ripped CDs that are important to me and not available on streaming. I even import a fake flac if a release is not on streaming and I only have the vinyl, this way I still have everything in one place and can add the metadata; often, Roon has the metadata anyway even if the music is…
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