Youtube music comes “for free” with Youtube Premium.And my family loves it (and it’s pretty cool/good, I’ll admit it). Spotify integrates with my car’s infotainment system.Tidal helps fill in a few gaps in catalogue for me within Roon… and also occassionally gives me access to a few modern features/“radios”/curated playlists that come in handy.Qobuz is my personal favorite/“best for me”.Options/choice are a good thing…but I can’t be the only enthusiast on here with more than 1 active paid streaming music sub… in fact, I think I’ve currently got 5?

So Apple has lossless? That’s great! Good news for us, the enthusiast community. So I have no way of knowing how much they are or aren’t struggling and are or aren’t on life support… some seem confident they are, but I’m just not so sure… I’ve never seen their financials, either. There’s more to it than just having CD-quality (bitrate) files… so far Apple doesn’t offer everything else that matters (to me) that Tidal and Qobuz do… I guess I just don’t think their demise is as eminent as some on here seem confident that it is… Tidal and Qobuz do a lot of things right for us, the Roon/audiophile community, that currently Apple Music doesn’t.

With the streamers I’m just shuffling my local library Concerned when those streaming service cease to exist. My issue isn’t how Roon is currently construction w/ Qobuz and Tidal.

But maybe you’re right and I’m wrong about that… I think without knowing that lots of Roon users are here because of local media wants and needs (in addition to everyone’s desire to stream)… and I think many of us still buy music. And how it can present that local media (and do all those cool things) side-by-side (integrated) with two giant streaming music catalogues within the same GUI/eco-system, and I can mix-and-match sources (local files/tidal/qobuz) within playlists and queues etc….All the cool things it can do with my local media.I’ve got several active (paid) music streaming subscriptions, including Tidal, Qobuz, and Spotify… but if all I did was streaming alone, I don’t think I’d have Roon… most of Roon’s biggest advantages, to me at least, are: I genuinely do not understand the (vocal) part of this community that claims/appears to use Roon without local media… Once they deliver CD quality most of the arguments disappear.Īs someone’s daughter said what’s with all the trouble.

Spotify hi fi