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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