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I'm really into music. Like, really into music. Probably much moreso than most HN users, although less than true audiophiles. I've got most of my music organiz
by COGlory 3y ago
I'm really into music. Like, really into music. Probably much moreso than most HN users, although less than true audiophiles.
I've got most of my music organized digitally with Roon. Roon is expensive, but really interesting. It basically lets you integrate your local collection with Qobuz or Tidal. It handles all the metadata and playlists and discovery through a combination of both local and streaming. For my use cases, it's basically perfect.
- nsteel 3y agoHow does it help with discovery? Does Roon have some (local? Cloud?) algorithm that looks at your local collection and then suggests things to stream on Qobuz/Tidal? And they've managed to do this well?
- COGlory 3y agoRoon are metadata kings. Genres, sub-genres, sub-sub-genres. And frequently there's a Roon curated playlist associated with each. They also list every single musician on every single track - not just the title artists. Producers, composers, etc. I can find a song I like and click "play radio" and it'll find similar songs. However, I can also click the genre or sub-genre. I've found out whole genres I love that I never knew existed, by seeing what Roon categorized them as. Or I can click a song, see who the guitarist is, see what else they have been in by just clicking their name. Same with producers, etc.
- nsteel 3y agoI like the sound of that last bit. But I honestly thought they were just a software outfit, putting pieces together, are they really providing this extra stuff? It sounds like a huge amount of work in itself.
- COGlory 3y agoYou can read about precisely what Roon adds to the equation here: https://valence.roonlabs.com https://valence.roonlabs.com It's their own database and algorithms.