Many of the same arguments in the Mac v Windows debate could be applied here.

A better understanding of hardware allows leaner and faster software with less need to upgrade hardware as often. Meridian's philosophy dictated not just how music sounded but also how you listened to it resulting in simpler less complicated interfaces. And this is one of my main gripes with Roon.

Viewing By Albums
Using an iPad Pro I can only see 8 albums per page. Swiping from 1 end of the list to another is mind numbing. Selecting an album then results in a vertical scroll. Viewing Leonard Cohens, You Want It Darker, only shows 2 songs on the first page, requiring more scrolling to see just a list of 9 songs!

Viewing By Artist
Despite only have 8 artists per page it's difficult to actually ready the artists names. I have to scan from top left to top right, then return to the bottom left and scan to the right. The artist I want isn't on that page so I swipe right and repeat...

If I recall, Sooloos has a list on the left hand side. No large images to distract you, just the text in alphabetical order. I could probably scan a hundred artists on Sooloos in the same time it takes to scan 16-27 on Roon.

In the early days, before Windows caught up with Mac, numerous independent studies showed that Mac users were more efficient than Windows users. You could still perform the same tasks on both platforms, Mac users could simply do it more efficiently. So while you can do all the same things with Roon that you could with Sooloos, this should be expected given the extra 5 years of development. What you shouldn't expect is that it now takes longer to perform the same tasks.

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