Sonore UPnP Bridge for Roon
Posted by: simes_pep on 18 December 2016
Anyone had any experiences of this yet?
It is a product that means you can use UPnP driven products, such as Naim network players, Squeezeboxes, etc as Roon Endpoints in their Music Management software?
The Roon software is highly rich music management portal to your music. I have been using on a laptop alongside the Naim app for over a year now, to manage my music library and discover new, additional material. It allows you to identify the source path of the Album/track and navigate to that location, if you need to adjust metadata tags, remove duplications, etc.
It is capable of replacing your UPnP server layer, in the form of Asset, Mininserver, DLNA products on NAS & Unitiservers/Core, for indexing & serving the music to the Network player, but adding a wealth of additional information about your music library, in terms of on-screen bios, lyrics, artist background and access to additional material by each artist. The search on Tidal is additive, i.e. it displays what is available on Tidal in addition to what you have already in your collection for that Artist.
With the Bridge product you should be able to play the music through the Naim network player, from the Roon server or controller - both have the same interface on Windows, macOS or iOS.
Now it does involve additional hardware for the Roon core & either an annual fee or a lifetime charge, along with a box to run this UPnP bridge. So is additional expensive & investment, however my dissatisfaction with the Naim app & its development & focus on the new Naim products is causing me to consider this direction for controlling the music to my NDS (which along with a 555DR was a major investment).
Simon