VladDracule

my roon installation runs really really poorly on my work computer. It also seems to be taking alot of RAM. more than chrome 10+ tabs open which is surprising as chrome is well known memory hog. Every action even moving the roon windows is just laggy, seconds behind my mouse movements. Any else have that issue?

The UI on foobar is rather perplexing to me. Im wanting to use it to create .m3u playlists for use in roon however i cant figure out the UI. I have all my albums imported, and using the library viewer to navigate, double clicking isnt doing what i want it to do. Ive played with some settings, and there doesnt seem to be just a simple double click to play setting. What i want is to have my current named playlist opened in one tab, be able to double click a song in my library without it adding it to a playlist or anything, listen to the song a bit, and decide if i want it on that specific playlist, and if so drag and drop it into the playlist. Right now various settings im using either completely obliterate the current playlist, add it to some random new playlist that has the song title on it and opens a new tab, or adds it to a playlist at the end but doesnt play. Is there some setting im missing to just flat out double click a file to play it, and not mess with these playlists?

\ Ironically, you literally gave no helpful feedback, in any way shape or form. Not only that, frankly, youre an asshole with a piss poor attitude who needs to grow up, and learn some basic manners. Your attitude is pathetic, and your "opinions" are less than useless, and your reading comprehension even worse. Get over yourself.

How bout this, dont respond to the thread if you have literally nothing helpful to contribute. I stated VERY clearly in the OP that the issue was with the licensing structure, not the music sources itself and you come in with a condescending attitude saying that i need to purchase an HDD when i clearly stated i already have it. and that was not the issue

I am aware, i actually posted that was possible in one of my replies to this thread before your last few responses

you have a serious reading comprehension issue. You cant just take out of context quotes as the sum, it doesnt work that way

one license one machine with virtually no authentication meaning that same license number could be entered on multiple PC's with virtually no restriction. Which is why companies back then didnt allow returns of PC games.

Except it has virtually NEVER been that way with anything except OS's. Even microsoft office with its license system you could still install and view/edit documents/power points even if it wasn't officially activated on that machine. $1000 photoshop licenses can be used on multiple pc's under the same account name. The entire reason companies started the account system for use with their software, was for people who have multiple machines and want/need that software accessible and usable on all of those machines. The old single use license system is outdated and other companies have solved the issue using the account system, there's no reason roon couldnt follow the same model. Even 'passing' a license around like they have implemented is a bit of an archaic design.

This has nothing to do with attitude. I stated EXPLICITLY that i have external hard drives, i know my original installation of roon could use it as a source, so that was never the problem and i never stated it to be a problem, the only thing i stated was an issue, was the licensing, not the owning of external HDD's. I have close to 500 CD's i own and have ripped, me owning the music was also, NOT the problem. Dont tell me there is an attitude issue when that has absolutely nothing to do with it, and the original post was in fact, 100% irrelevant information. That being said this issue is solved by roons support. They are 100% ok with passing a license back and fourth between PC's and allow unlimited deactivation of licenses and activation on machines so you can "pass" the license between pc's without any issue, which is the information i was missing

Tell me how buying a hard drive solves the fact that i cannot use the license at work, and plug in a hard drive to play music because my library manage computer is at home. Again, irrelevant information

Most of what you posted, is irrelevant. 1) Separate installations of roon do not allow their own audio sources. I cannot install roon on my work PC if my library pc is on a different network and just plug in an external hard drive as a source. It literally, does not allow it. 2) having to be connected to the internet for metadata is in no way a valid reason to not allow using an external harddrive on multiple individual installations of roon, it can in fact, do that no matter what PC it is used on so long as it has internet access whether or not your "library" pc is powered on.

I had a simple need. I wanted to be able to use whatever music software i purchased at both work and at home. I didnt want every pc i have to steam, i wanted to be able to use micro sd cards and external hard drives to prevent my main PC from always being on. Apparently, with roons license structure, this isnt possible. Roons installation, literally, does not allow you to plug in an external hard drive, and play music. You know, the basic function of music playing software. That means i cant even play music using roon, on say my surface pro 4 in the living room/kitchen without my gaming rig being on to stream from. I also cant just keep my music on an external hard drive and use roon at work to PLAY music. I havent tested the android app but i daresay it would be the same story. I dont have a network drive, i dont want to spend the 600+ to get a good NAS, i just wanted a simple music player that allowed me to play music from a drive. because of this limitation, i VERY much regret my purchase, and am hoping the company is willing to give a refund

I need to clean my library of duplicate rips, however going through and listening to them, I'm noticing that some rips have drastically different volume levels, the same song, same format, just one rip newer than the other. Why would that be? I can't even remotely understand why, same player, same headphones, same amp, and one is significantly louder than the other

Hello all, I have a rather large music library (100GB+) and the issue i have, is that my file naming scheme has changed over time or even just between different settings on ripping software on different PC's. And example of such would be: \Media\FLAC\Metallica then the sub-directories: \Media\FLAC\Metallica\... And Justice For All (Original US Pressing)(Hi-Rez) \Media\FLAC\Metallica\1991 08 – Metallica \Media\FLAC\Metallica\2008 09 12 – Death Magnetic \Media\FLAC\Metallica\Kill 'Em All or even with discs: \Media\FLAC\Metallica\S&M, Disc 1 \Media\FLAC\Metallica\S&M, Disc 2 vs \Media\FLAC\Metallica\Live Shit-Binge & Purge\Disc 1 \Media\FLAC\Metallica\Live Shit-Binge & Purge\Disc 2 \Media\FLAC\Metallica\Live Shit-Binge & Purge\Disc 3 So you can see the difference, in the first group some album titles included years some didnt, in the multiple disc entries some are just under \artist\album, disk others are \artist\album\disc Is there some software out there that can help make these things consistant? even in song titles some go: [track #] [title] others are [track #] - [title] and its causing issues when im trying to set up tagging in programs like jriver