• Waffle@infosec.pub
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    16 hours ago

    I run Qobuz through a roon server on my Linux pc and it works great. I also have qobuz set up through strawberry, but it’s nice to be able to switch the output on the fly between different audio setups in my house (between my office setup and my bluesound streamer in the living room). The interface for roon is nice, but I get that it’s kinda expensive and there are cheaper ways to achieve the same thing. I like to stream while I’m biking on my indoor trainer and sometimes it’s nice to spin up a few songs and let roon take the wheel to keep the vibe going. I can also stream qobuz through roon to my Google home devices, but it doesn’t stream bit perfect.

    All that to say, I like qobuz and roon is pretty solid as well, albeit an extravagance and totally not necessary. The writeups qobuz has are also solid.

    I do think the qobuz app interface leaves something to be desired.

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      23 hours ago

      Oh boy, I have wanted to purchase Roon server for probably 10 years now but haven’t pulled the trigger. I haven’t really looked at it in a while either. I now wonder how much it’s changed since. Wow, it’s $829 for a lifetime now! I wanna say it was like $400 when I first wanted it. I knew i should have!

      I used to use Subsonic, then it was abandoned and felt like I needed something better. I ended up on a fork of it called Navidrome which is pretty impressive and are doing some great work improving things lately like adding in more tags to the original subsonic API to do more. The best app Symfonium also came out only a few years ago and is incredible now. It offers soooo much it’s kind of crazy. It also opted to make use of the new API, which allows more as well. One day I’ll move to Roon.

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        15 hours ago

        You could try music assistant, it uses navidrome/jellyfin/spotify/tidal ecc as a source, and streams them to your speakers. Pretty neat. It also supports squeezelite clients, so that’s neat. BTW, for navidrome I recommend Tempo, pretty nice FOSS app.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah, I wasn’t sure initially if I’d like it enough to pull the trigger on lifetime. I should have. Been paying for the annual subscription for the past ~2 years, but the price of lifetime has steadily been increasing. Will probably pull the trigger later this year as a little celebration gift to myself for wrapping up other financial obligations.