Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I started with a custom foobar2000 setup, but recently moved to JRiver Media Center. The latter is easier in attaining an ideal configuration. I am always open to ideas for a "better" player, which has me wondering what other people use for listening to their film scores.



Example of JRiver:

I still use Winamp.

Though for CDs I use Foobar.

Roon.

It was when I bought it, but has gone up to $700 for a lifetime account. There is an . I had a free trial and knew almost instantly that I'd have to break down and buy it. It does everything I want a program to do. It plays my lossless files bit-perfectly and gapless and can be easily controlled from my tablet or phone. My remote control can even handle basic functions (pause, skip tracks). It also seamlessly works with Qobuz, which I'm using more and more. It even plays in MQA (cheap plug).

It may not be for everyone, but it suits my needs perfectly.

Neil

Do you upload your lossless tracks to Roon's servers, or... ? I've no experience with Roon. Their website was a little confusing for me.

I use iTunes and MusicBee to curate and maintain my music library (which consists to 95% or so of lossless conversions of my actual CD collection). This is then transferred to my NAS for home distribution on my stereo system (or my phone/headset).
I don't use these players to actually listen to music, just to get it ready so I can listen to it.

I am going to be investing in a new NAS some time this year/next year, but I am still very unsure which way to go.

I checked out Roon and find that quite interesting, but there are some drawbacks. First, it is very expensive, secondly, it has no folder view, third, while I think the cool music connection features are nice, not sure if and how they interfere with my tagging structure (which took quite a while for me to figure out how to tag classical music in iTunes in a way that makes sense and is manageable). Also, while I use Qobuz, again I don't really need many of the more advanced features of Roon, so I don't feel like shelling out the dough. When investing into a new NAS, I might get one that could make into a Roon server, just in case, even though I'm not sure I will use Roon.

Not sure if JRiver or Plex or what will be up to what I really want. The one thing MusicBee can do (and iTunes, for example, cannot) is to handle assign multiple genres to a recording. Now that is such an extremely useful feature, I would like to see that in a whatever media server I ultimately decide on.