![]() ![]() Roon Labs was spun off from Meridian in February 2015, and Roon v.1.0 was officially announced in early April and released in mid-May. Michael and I were impressed with what we saw, but were sworn to secrecy until an announcement could be crafted that explained the new company's relationship with Meridianwhere all three Roon Labs founders had recently been employeesand a reasonably sensible release date and name could be agreed on. (Well, I do remember one name that contained the word "cow".) In the end, they just called it Roon. The product had yet to be named, though discretion forbids me from outing the several cringe-worthy ideas then offered. Michael Lavorgna, editor of our sister online publication, had joined me and the three founders of Roon Labs, and the beta product was booted up on a laptop. #PURE MUSIC VS AUDIRVANA SOFTWARE#In late 2008 Sooloos was bought by Meridian Audio, and several Sooloos employees remained with the company, to continue to develop the Sooloos software and touchscreen-intensive hardware, as well as to create a custom music-player application that Meridian licensed to Hewlett-Packard, under the name HP Connected Music.įast forward to last January's 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where I first experienced the Roon Labs system in beta form, discreetly demonstrated in a quiet lounge at the Mirage hotel. A couple years later, Sooloos LLC was established, and their first products hit the market in 2006. Though Roon Labs is less than a year old, the company's pedigree goes back more than a decade, to when a small group of music and tech nerds began pondering better ways to manage their large collections of digital audio files. Into this fray steps a new company, Roon Labs, with a standalone desktop app intended to take the sorting of music to the next level, for both audiophiles and regular music lovers. In recent years, the product that arguably (although there's no doubt in my mind) managed these things best in the context of a large music collection was Sooloos: an intuitively useful music-management application combined with a single-unit touchscreen, CD-ripping transport, storage drive, and server (footnote 1). Still others, such as Sonos, are integrated with a dedicated hardware product.Īll such library management combinations and standalone solutions are designed to do the same job: help you sort through thousands of possible music choices and pick a tune to play right now, or set up a playlist for the next few minutes or hours. There are dozens of music-playback programs for computers, touchpads, and smartphones, ranging from Amarra, Audirvana, JRiver, Pure Music, and VLC, which manage libraries or work with library software, to programs that are integrated with a specific distribution service: Pandora, Spotify, Tidal, and, of course, iTunes. ![]()
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