I like roon and am coming up to my first year of use.
Pluses:
- Excellent DSP features, I have barely scratched the surface and am not always sure I hear a difference, but great to have it there
- Room grouping is great
- So many devices and gadgets are compatible therefore we have aunified music system for the house, to play out of expensive hifi and cheap computers
- Interface looks pretty
Minuses:
- Internet radio is shite
- No ripping features (A beta one is now available for those with roon rock but it does not tag (!)
- The interface is a nightmare piece of shite to use. Side scrolling really? And on a phone its just an utter nonsense anything more than a few artists and you are going to have thumb cramp scrolling, there is no real reasoning for this, something to do with 'wanting us to discover', well the way I discover is often just to scroll through, give me a god damn scroll bar or a-z.
- Cannot use over VPN (Can get round this with ZeroTier
The pluses outweigh the minuses for me, particularly with being able to use it on phones, pcs, mac, squeeze etc and for the interface to look identical in all cases.