What exactly is ROON?


Pardon my ignorance, but what is the deal about ROON?  Why would I need it?  How would I use it?

manhattan1

Can either ROON or Audirvana do something like Genre random play by Album or Artist?

With Roon it is simple to shuffle an album playlist, or to click play on an artist's page to start a random play of that artist's songs.

There is also the Roon Radio function to start playing similar songs when any playlist ends.

BTW- I thought this thread, "What exactly is ROON" was about Roon. There seems to be some confusion.

Few months back on another thread I posed the question about some unique features that ROON had that I had not seen on other products such as Audirvana, native Qobuz app and streamer software I have used.  I basically ask what other products out there have these features. The response?  Crickets.   

@tonyptony

If I remember correctly in ROON. You can play and artist track and then it will continue to play "like" tracks. I think most of the interfaces have a "artist radio" functionality that achieves this?  Also very easy to kick off Genre radio. Just took me 2 clicks to fire up Jazz genre stream.