What exactly is ROON?

@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. 

@jbuhl 

But can you go to your own music, select a Genre, and then play Random by either Album or Artist?

@tonyptony

There is a setting "limit roon radio to library". I have not played with the setting so not sure how it works.

Also from the Services menu its very easy to Disable/Enable the service without logging out. 

I use Roon for playback in concert with a Linn Akurate DSM/3. The core is installed on a Mac Mini M1 that is used solely for this purpose. It allows me to access Qobuz, streaming radio and the music files stored on an SSD. I do a lot more streaming than playing my vinyl rig, and Roon's interface is easy to use and actually leads me into some very interesting musical territory. The playlists that it creates gather music from my files and Qobuz. It's like a really good non-commercial radio station.

hgeifman - a couple things. Your description can also be said about Roon and Pure Music which I’ve used for many years.

Audirvana gui sucks to put it bluntly. Audirvana might sound a little bit bit better today but Roon might make a change and it’s sound quality might leap frog Audirvana’s. If Audirvana will ever get their gui close to Roons capabilities, Roons is light years ahead right now, I still wouldn’t be able to switch to audirvana for these reasons: I use Roon endpoints all over the house, use ARC daily in my cars, and my metadata is exactly how I want it.