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im not quite 30 but grew up fairly regularly having to upgrade iPods because I kept filling them and then using an iPod classic until extremely recently I thought Roon was for me but the lack of 'on-the-go' streaming for my own library is a huge failure to me.
If you want me to pay more than the cost of streaming, to listen to my own library, you better make it so that I can listen to it on the go.
They definitely got some things right though.
rogan
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As a follow up on Roon. They must see the market moving away from personal collections and the advantages of giving a great user experience with streaming. That's certainly the direction they have been pushing in, but as they are not a streaming service it's only a a question of time before a streaming service does the interface as well or better and then Roon is done.
Bit of a paradox for Roon because their users are already older and the younger people they attract generally don't get it based on comments I've seen.
I'm getting to the point where actually owning all this music seems less worthwhile but I can still stop paying a subscription and have enough music to keep me busy for a very very long time so that has to be worth something right? right??!
One thing I notice streaming a lot of music is everything gets less attention and my interest in individual artists output is hugely diminished while it's also easier to just focus on the best output in any genre regardless of artist.