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I had a look at Plex and it seems to miss the endpoint management, dsp, and Roon rock capability. With Roon you can see exactly what it's doing with the files from the original bitrate through the dsp and out to the endpoint. This kind of transparency becomes more important if you are using MQA or DSD with exotic convertors.
It's true that the metadata has become more available, Qobuz and Plex are good examples where metadata, booklets etc. are becoming the norm. However, Roon have had a long time including the Meridian Sooloos phase to use the metadata system they created for Roon radio which means less reliance on playlists.
It's probably only a little bit better for a lot more money, like a lot of things in life!
If you end up building a server on an NUC and running a household full of endpoints you are probably getting your moneys worth. I use it to run 2 households full of endpoints with all kinds of convertors and it works very well at that.
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seems to miss the endpoint management, dsp, and Roon rock capability.
Thanks man, that's helpful. What end-points do you use? Now that the chromecast audio is discontinued (great little plex endpoints by the way) I'm not sure if I'm going to get stuck in a dead-end, as there's no real replacement for them that I can see. So Roon becomes a more serious option.
freddo
I’m really interested in whether Roon is significantly better than Plex. I’d love to be able to justify an upgrade :) I think plex has the same features as Roon (auto tagging with metadata, gigs, auto playlists, band history from last.fm, similar artists, etc) but I’m not sure if I’m missing something in Roon that I’m just not aware of. I’m not a huge fan of the Plex UI (actually, it’s ok, just dark!), product development is leisurely (no published roadmap) and there isn’t a CarPlay app for it which is super annoying. Any other killer features you can share to help me justify switching to Roon?