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I picked up on Plex from the Roon forum as Plex adding Tidal has been creating some chatter amongst Roon users. I've not got the lifetime membership yet, still on the annual one but will probably go down the lifetime route if nothing else emerges soon.
I'm not sure you need to upgrade your endpoints to get the most from Roon, depends what you want from the multiroom setup though. I tend to have a critical listening place and then the multi room stuff is less hi-fi. I should try Plex to see what the features are like but a quick rundown it looks like there's a fair bit of metadata missing that Roon has.
Most Roon users seem to want an alternative to Tidal so Qobuz would be interesting. In short I've stuck with Roon because I really enjoy listening to music with it. I do find it difficult to spend that sort of money on software though.
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basically Plex is the poor man's Roon, and whilst I'd love to be able to drop $500 on Roon, the incremental improvement in features seems marginal at best. Actually I can't see much gain other than multi-room streaming, and there are features in Plex (like streaming to my mobile device when I'm out of the house) which aren't available on Roon. The bigger issue is that to do multi-room streaming I'd need to upgrade all my end-points from £30 chromecast audios (96/24) to probably £500 bluesound units (192/24), which feels like a huge outlay for very little benefit. If I did that I'd probably skip Roon and use Bluesound's app.
Am i missing something?
But the more I read about Tidal the less enamoured I am with it. Setting aside JayZ's involvement, it's a US company (so my privacy is less secure) and also there's talk it will be bought by Apple sometime soon. I'd love Qobuz (French firm, EU only) integration with Roon but seems like this is being held up at the Qobuz end. That would be a killer combination.