Lumin U2 or Aurender N200

@rms456 

Often thought about the Aurender, but it misses out for large libraries unless I'm missing the point on how their conductor application works.

Aurender can play files directly from a NAS.  I just set mine up and it works perfectly.

@audphile1

Yes. You also have an option to edit any metadata manually from their IOS app called ACS Manager. I really love the functionality and features ACS provides without the intervention of a laptop or desktop. I still buy CD’s that are sourced from analog masters and ACS helps me rip and curate them meticulously. You can create folders, sub folders and so on (you should already aware of this).

I have transitioned to ROON so I am using ACS for storage, library management and ripping. ROON now has a capability to show your folders, so I see mirror image of my ACS folders in my ROON app.

@audphile1

Will be trying Nordost Tyr 2 soon. I can report back.

Thanks. Looking forward to hearing your impressions.

@lalitk one annoying aspect of streamers, Aurender included, is that the artwork for most of the music library isn’t being displayed. This is despite the fact that the jpg images are located in the correct folders. So the metadata is neither being read from the drive nor pulled from the internet sites. I guess that’s why ACS100 exists.
Roon has no such problems.

@audphile1 

I hear you…had the same issue with BS Vault. The ACS Manager app is much more robust and gives you many options to pulled down artwork in your choice of resolution. I have over 900 albums on ACS…every single one of them has artwork and metadata. 

It’s a personal choice but I take a little bit of pride in curating my content so all of my albums have high resolution artwork since space is not an issue for me. 

As far as ROON goes, it will display an artwork of album being played.