Hi Richard
My post was made with the assumption that a User was only deciding whether to invest in Sooloos or Roon NOW for the first time……..and this does apply to some HH’s even now [e.g. SpinalTap]………..and was stated clearly at the start of the post

So my starting point was if a User already had a 1,000 Albums ripped into iTunes or by dBpa etc., and those Albums were in a Folder(s) on his PC/NAS [again a typical situation], then he would have to do the following with each respective eco-system

Sooloos: User needs to Drag & Drop each Album in turn into the C-PC window…….wait for the Sooloos Album ID to occur……sometimes Manual editing of the Metadata is required for adding Reviews and Tags etc; checking Genre info; finding and copy / paste Higher Res Album Art; making sure Track Names and Sequences are the same; adding Artist Names to each track of Compilation or Various Artist albums……click to Import and the album tracks are then imported into the Sooloos Store’s hard drive storage…..an average of 5 minutes per album I always found was a good approximation to ensure that the Sooloos metadata associated with the Album didn’t need correction later…..some albums took less than that, and other albums more

Roon: User points the app towards the Folder with all 1,000 Albums in it…….Roon then uses its processes to identify each album….and the album gets added into the Roon library……..as such each Album folder stays exactly where it was and is not pulled across to another Roon hard drive…………all of this happens “unattended”…….and Roon is generally FAR better at recognizing the correct Album and pulling in the correct metadata than Sooloos is [IMHO and experience]

Roon pulls its metadata from Rovi plus several other databases and stores this date for each album in its own ‘database’…….none of this is in any way dependent upon Tidal …………indeed at present, I don’t have Tidal activated on my Roon system

As long as one pays to subscribe to Tidal separately, then Tidal can be added to either Sooloos or Roon…….but in either case, Tidal is NOT necessary to enjoy “listening to my own CD’s”…….but as mentioned by a few people above, there if a significant difference between how the Tidal service is integrated into Roon versus Sooloos

Last edited by Ronnie; 2015-05-18 23:10.
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