Thoughts on JRiver Media Center? Anyone using it?

I use J Play as a music player. It is very basic with no frills but on sound quality alone it trounces both J River and Roon. You don't have to keep renewing it either.

JRiver is indispensable for me because I have a very large number of classical works stored in my server. It is the only one I know of that provides a customizable robust meta-data system that is suitable for classical. Plus the sound quality is excellent depending, as always, on your set up. If your tag system is simple and your file collection small, you may not need it.

I still use JRiver controlled with the JRemote app. Works pretty good for my needs so far. I may eventually give Roon a try.

My biggest gripe with JRiver at the moment is that it doesn't integrate Tidal or Qobuz. Not sure how it is handled in Roon, but it seems that I can play my Tidal library from within Roon.

I still rely on JRiver although I occasionally use others.  I do renew it but it is not necessary.

windows media player has good sound.

I too still use JRiver. Great for my large catalog of WAV, CDA, FLAC, HDCD, DSD, DSF. UPDATED frequently and not very expensive. A+!

Both Tidal and Qobuz can be played inside Roon, I feel that Qobuz sound a bit better than Tidal, but Tidal’s integration with Roon is a little bit better.

You have a great system. I recommend a high quality streamer. This will get you sound commiserate with the rest of your system. PC / notebooks are too noisy, not built for high quality sound. Like all audio components, you generally get the sound quality you pay for.

Also, if an nearby Ethernet connection is a problem, just get a wall wart wifi extender and plug in behind your system and run an Ethernet cable into that. 

I have both Room and JRiver on my Wolf Audio Luna R server and I prefer the sound quality of  Room for playback of ripped cd's and have compared numerous times with the same files.  You might find different results in your system.

My apologies to all for not returning sooner. My problem is not sound quality but controlling the playlist, library etc
@ghdprentice   Thanks for the compliment on my system

FWIW I have a Teac NT 505 streamer Dac which sounds pretty good. I just can't find a good program/app for my phone which controls the Serviio based library. Thus my interest in JRiver. I'm using Serviio as a server and Bubbkle UPNP