Balena Sound VS Roon (Music Player)

Balena Sound Reviews

Roon (Music Player) Reviews

Balena Sound mentions (11)

• Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?

  I personally use balena sound Https://sound.balenalabs.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Whole home audio amp/receiver recommendations

  I've had balena bookmarked for a minute to try to roll my own Sonos alternative, but I haven't tried it yet. Source: over 1 year ago

• My setup is Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS running on a Lenovo laptop. I want to have Spotify Connect working on it and to be able to play music through the speaker that get connected to the laptop thru 3.5mm AUX cable.

  Try this, it is made for raspberry pi but you might be able to run it on your laptop. https://sound.balenalabs.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Streaming the same music to multiple devices?

  Or you can tey something like this https://sound.balenalabs.io. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices

  First 10 devices on balena are free, its used by many thousands of hobbyists. For example balenaSound is very popular, for multi-room audio with rapsberry pi's https://sound.balenalabs.io/ There is also balenaHub, which hosts many community projects and introduces the concept of "open fleets", bring your device and join the fleet, instead of managing it yourself https://hub.balena.io/fleets Disclosure: I am an... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Roon (Music Player) mentions (47)

• What do you guys use to play music on the go?

  I also use Roon, which is a little complicated to describe here. Basically I have my own home server with music on, and then I can use the Roon ARC app to access it on the go, similar to above (and is similar to PlexAmp mentioned elsewhere here). Source: 11 months ago

• Better sound than AppleTV 4K driving KEF LS50Ws?

  You might want to give roon or audirvana a try. Source: 11 months ago

• Just bought a house with multi room speakers. Help?

  You may also want to look into Room depending how far down the rabbit hole you want to go https://roonlabs.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks

  Roon handles metadata and relationships between entities the least bad of anything I’ve tried. It’ll do things like link covers and live performances of the same song together, or let you group multiple issues of the same album and switch between them. It’s not cheap, and it takes some effort to fix some bad source data, but I’ve found it very rewarding and get a ton of enjoyment exploring my library now.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• iOS 16.3 Code Reveals Apple Continues to Work on Classical Music App

  Take a look at Roon. It's pricing and mobile limitations are disqualifications for me, but it's tagging is simply phenomenal. Source: over 1 year ago