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Roon Introduces Art Director

1.8 Update Offers New Valence Tool, Playlists by Roon, and More

December 15, 2021 – Roon, the world’s most innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform, has issued a new software update that gives users the opportunity to contribute to the content seen in Roon on a scale larger than ever before with the new Valence tool, Art Director.  The update also significantly improves Roon’s search function, makes streaming music more stable, adds weekly curated playlists to your home screen, and more.

Art Director
Everyone benefits from better-looking artist photos and band logos, so Roon has created Art Director, a fun new tool that puts you in control of how images are shown in Roon. Using Art Director, you can adjust the positioning of artist photos, upload logos and images, and vote for your favorites. 

How does Art Director work?
When you sign into Valence and select Art Director, you will be presented with images from the Valence database that need your artistic eye. If you want to adjust a specific artist’s images, you can type their name into the search box. From there, you’ll see all of the adjustments contributed by other users, as well as any images that still need your direction. 

You, and the rest of the Roon community, can adjust artist photos to ensure they fit into any shape or screen – and then you can vote for your favorite image on an artist’s page in Art Director by clicking on the heart next to any adjusted image – this is how Valence decides which images are shown in Roon.  As the Roon community begins to vote and upload improved artist photos, these changes ensure you’re always seeing the best possible images in Roon, with photos continually improving based on the efforts of the Roon community.

To start contributing, simply login to Valence using your Roon account details here: https://valence.roonlabs.net

Playlists by Roon
Until now, the weekly playlists Roon creates have only been available on TIDAL and Qobuz, and haven’t been directly accessible in Roon.  In this latest release, you can now access everything Roon’s music team has curated, directly from your home screen on both streaming platforms.

Smarter search
Roon’s search function has been given a complete overhaul to make it easier than ever to find the music you’re looking for.  Now, when you search for music in Roon, you’ll see more accurate and concise results (and fewer inaccuracies), especially when it comes to your own library.

Rock-solid streaming
Changes have been made to Roon’s buffering and caching system when playing streaming content. This implementation uses a new fault-tolerant mechanism when interacting with your network and internet connection, making streaming both more stable and less intensive for your Roon Core.  This will minimize playback errors from TIDAL and Qobuz, as well as make it possible for people with slower internet connections and networks to have a better experience.

Easier volume limits
We’ve redesigned the Zone Settings screen so it’s even easier to set volume limits that prevent your music from getting too loud. The new design also makes it simple to configure auto-sleep functionality and other settings for your audio devices.

How to get the latest update
Getting the new update is as easy as logging in to your Roon account.  You’ll be prompted to update your Roon Core to the new version of 1.8.  For the most seamless experience, users should update their iOS and Android devices before accepting the update on their Core.

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About Roon Labs 
Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable digital magazine about your entire music collection. 
Roon also links all of your personal files with the millions of tracks available on TIDAL and Qobuz, so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world beyond your collection. Roon runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs as a server, with an Android or iOS smartphone/tablet used as a control point. 

Roon PR contacts
For press enquiries, images, and review requests, contact Starscream Communications:

US: jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com 
UK: kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk

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Roon welcomes new audio partners and refines features for a better user experience

28 October 2021 – Roon, the innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform, continues to deliver an exceptional digital music experience to a wide range of audio devices.

NEW BRAND PARTNERS, ROON READY & ROON TESTED DEVICES
It’s been a busy quarter (July – September 2021) for Roon with an impressive array of over 25 new Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices from audio heavyweights Arcam, Astell&Kern, Bluesound, JBL, Mission, Rotel and more. 

Additionally, the brand welcomed 5 new partners into the Roon family, including British loudspeaker pioneers Mission, whose new LX Connect all-in-one hi-fi system is Roon Tested. Other new partners include Argon Audio, Avik, Silent Angel and Zidoo (featuring three 4K UHD media players that are Roon Ready).

New devices that are Roon Ready include: 

  • Astell&Kern SE200, SE180 DAP and KANN ALPHA portable audio players – Astell&Kern now have seven Roon-compatible devices
  • Arcam ST60 is the company’s first-ever dedicated hi-resolution audio streamer with MQA
  • Bluesound Soundbar+ is an audiophile-grade soundbar with Roon Ready
  • For JBL’s 75th anniversary, the JBL SA750 is a modern-retro Class G amplifier with streaming capabilities.

For the full list of Roon partner brands and every Roon Ready and Roon Tested device available, visit: roonlabs.com/partners

To learn the difference between Roon Ready and Roon Tested, visit: https://roonlabs.com/roon-partner-programs

1.8 UPDATES: NEW FEATURES, BETTER EXPERIENCE
Roon is continuously refining and adding features to improve the user experience of the 1.8 release. New updates include a completely redesigned “Versions” view, making it easier to compare different editions of your favorite albums in your own music library, Qobuz and Tidal. Whether you’re looking for an expanded edition with bonus tracks or want to listen to an even higher-quality version, Roon lets you do this in a couple of clicks. 

Also new is one of the most requested features from the Roon community: native control of Roon from your smartphone, even when the screen is locked. You can now access essential controls (play, skip, pause, volume control) natively from your Android or iOS device without going into the Roon Remote app. Gesture controls for iOS users have also been implemented.

Other updates released over the summer are Daily Mixes – six new personalized daily playlists based on your TIDAL and Qobuz listening history; redesigned TIDAL experience featuring top charts and staff picks; and improved search interface with predictive auto-complete (across artists, albums, tracks, genres, composers and compositions) to make it even easier and faster to get to the music you love.

Roon provides the largest and highest-performance ecosystem for listening to high-resolution music on the widest range of audio equipment. 

Roon plays with everything – audio products as varied as network streamers, DACs, wireless speakers, all-in-one systems, and A/V receivers – at prices ranging from $100 to $100,000. Roon’s versatility and widespread compatibility mean users can have the best music experience with every audio product in their homes, regardless of manufacturer, product type, or price.

Now working with nearly 200 audio brands – including globally recognized names such as Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Devialet, KEF, Harman, McIntosh, and Naim Audio – and supporting over a thousand individual products, Roon has fast become an essential feature in the listening rooms of music industry heavyweights, music collectors, and audiophiles.

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  • Enno Vandermeer, Roon Labs Founder & CEO
  • Enno Vandermeer, Roon Labs Founder & CEO
  • Enno Vandermeer, Roon Labs Founder & CEO
  • Enno Vandermeer, Roon Labs Founder & CEO

About Roon Labs 
Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable digital magazine about your entire music collection. 
Roon also links all of your personal files with the millions of tracks available on TIDAL and Qobuz, so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world beyond your collection. Roon runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs as a server, with an Android or iOS smartphone/tablet used as a control point. 

Roon PR contacts:
For press enquiries, images, and review requests, contact: 

US: jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com 
UK: kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk

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Roon Labs celebrates a huge expansion of its audio device ecosystem

The innovative music management, discovery and streaming platform works with thousands of audio products to deliver an exceptional digital music experience.

14 July 2021 – The cadence of new Roon Ready certifications has increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. In 2020, just a handful of new products were certified each month, and in the first half of this year Roon Labs is already announcing over 100 new Roon Ready and Roon Tested devices. Forty new brands have submitted products for certification in that timeframe. This includes key product ranges and new launches from notable audio manufacturers, including Arcam, Astell & Kern, Cambridge Audio, and JBL.

Now working with nearly 200 audio brands – including globally recognized names such as Bowers & Wilkins, Denon, Devialet, KEF, Harman, McIntosh, and Naim Audio – and supporting over a thousand individual products, Roon has fast become an essential feature in the listening rooms of music industry heavyweights, music collectors, and audiophiles.

Roon plays with everything – audio products as varied as network streamers, DACs, wireless speakers, all-in-one systems, and A/V receivers – at prices ranging from $100 to $100,000. Roon’s versatility and widespread compatibility mean users can have the best music experience with every audio product in their homes, regardless of manufacturer, product type, or price.

Recent announcements about lossless and high-resolution streaming from Apple Music and others have kindled new interest in high-quality audio. For listeners who want to go beyond their mobile phone with Bluetooth headphones, Roon provides the largest and highest-performance ecosystem for listening to high resolution music on the widest range of audio equipment.

In addition to Roon Ready products, there are hundreds of Roon Tested products that bring the Roon experience to the rest of your home. Support for Sonos, AirPlay, and Google Cast streaming devices – as well as USB and HDMI receivers and DACs – means that Roon helps you get the best performance out of virtually any audio device.

With its groundbreaking user interface and ever-growing feature set (as evidenced by the recent Roon 1.8 update) and support for high-res PCM, DSD and MQA digital audio file formats, Roon works with the highest level of performance the industry has to offer.

Roon is a rich and engaging way to browse, organize, and listen to music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable digital magazine. Roon is also a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform – it offers features such as bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel support, and Signal Path display.

For the full list of Roon partners and certified products, visit: roonlabs.com/partners

About Roon Labs 
Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable digital magazine about your entire music collection. 
Roon also links all of your personal files with the millions of tracks available on TIDAL and Qobuz, so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world beyond your collection. Roon runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs as a server, with an Android or iOS smartphone/tablet used as a control point. 

Roon Labs PR contacts:
For press enquiries, images, and review requests, contact: 

US: jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com 
UK: kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk

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Roon 1.8 arrives: Powerful, user-driven software update brings a visually stunning interface, sophisticated music discovery, and deeper personalization

February 2, 2021 – Roon Labs, the world’s most innovative music discovery and streaming platform that offers users a way to engage with their music collection in a whole new way, has made significant improvements with its latest software release. 

Roon 1.8 brings an immersive new experience that delivers even more from the Roon features you know and love, in a powerful and beautiful new way.

Refined and redesigned
In its latest release, Roon becomes a captivating gallery of music for you to browse and explore your collection on a much deeper level.

Roon 1.8 presents a fresh, modern design with bold typography that looks visually stunning and is a pleasure to use. But the changes made are more than skin deep. Each of Roon’s newly designed layouts, from the new Home and artist screens to the composer and genre pages, are curated just for you.

The new vertical scroll makes it quick and easy to find the music that you’re looking for, no matter what device you’re using – meaning your Roon experience is consistent and seamless across desktop, tablet and smartphone.

Intelligent and powerful music discovery
Roon 1.8 brings extremely powerful new browsing capabilities and recommendations that understand your music collection like no other. By combining Roon’s deep metadata and learnings from how you and Roon’s community of 100,000 expert listeners use the platform, suggestions are made with uncanny insight and is tailored to each individual listener.

Whether you have an extensive music collection you’ve built up over years or you’re just starting out, your own music collection is always just the starting point. Roon helps you rediscover your own music collection and find new music outside it. And by connecting TIDAL or Qobuz streaming services to your Roon account, you have access to a vast world of high-resolution streamed music and the possibility of making endless new discoveries.

Focus: far beyond “search”
Roon’s Focus feature has long been the most powerful way to explore your own music, but the newly-expanded 1.8 release goes beyond your library. Focus can now be used to find music anywhere in Roon – even across Qobuz and TIDAL – giving you a 360-view of your favorite artists, genre, performers and composers.

Browse and filter your favorite artists’ most significant albums, their top collaborations, their influences and connections to the artists you already love – to find exactly the music you’re looking for.  Not only can you browse a variety of new Roon-powered recommendations, but the new Discography view makes it easy to browse even the most prolific artist’s catalog.

Classical music reimagined
Roon understands that how you explore certain genres of music is different. That’s why the 1.8 release features a completely new visual style and information layout for classical music, bringing advanced discovery and an educational experience like no other service.

Whether you’re a connoisseur or just getting introduced to classical music, Roon guides you to explore the genre from the perspective of the composer, performance, period or more. It also provides tighter links between albums and composers, as well as simpler browsing and intelligent recommendations based on the composer, performer, composition or conductor you’re listening to.

The new Discography feature also includes a comprehensive new “performances” view, where you can use Focus to find the exact performance you’re looking for. Interested in hearing Martha Argerich performing Chopin? Maybe a Nocturne? All Bach recordings by Glenn Gould? In just a couple clicks, Focus will get you there.

Introduction to Roon 1.8 by Enno Vandermeer, CEO and founder of Roon Labs

An experience tailor-made for you
Ever wondered what your most listened to artist or genre is? The updated Home screen in 1.8 includes an all-new dashboard of your listening habits over time, broken down by top artists, albums and genres. This can be switched to show data for the last week, month, year or all time.

You also get a calendar view of what music you’ve been listening to over the last four weeks, and clicking on each section offers even deeper insight into your listening habits down to the minute.

There are now also quick links to the Roon Community within the app, so you are always just one click away from support from Roon and its music experts.

“Roon users are expert listeners, which means they mine their favorite subgenres fanatically. The data about that listening, in turn, is what makes Roon’s music suggestions feel so human. It’s the Roon community that makes these innovations possible.” said Roon founder and CEO, Enno Vandermeer.

Roon 1.8 goes live on February 9, 2021.

Contact:
US: Jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com
UK: Kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk

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Roon: The biggest music listening innovation in years

Roon offers music lovers an immersive music discovery tool, compatibility with the gear they already own, and the ability to listen to music in the highest sound quality possible

New York, NY – Roon Labs, the world’s most innovative platform for listening to and exploring the music you love, offers users a way to engage with their music collection in a way not available anywhere else. Working with over 1,000 audio devices from over 200 different brands, Roon is an established heavyweight in hi-fi. But for those learning about Roon for the first time, its vast offerings can be distilled into three key offerings: An immersive user experience, compatibility between your music sources and the gear through which you choose to play it, and the ability to extract the best possible sound quality from your audio gear.

The ultimate music expert
Roon brings all of your music together, files and streams, in one easy to use interface, and provides an immersive experience tailored for everyone in your home. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable gallery of your music collection. Unlike the predictable feedback loop that so many services follow, Roon is different. The more you use it, the better Roon understands your listening habits, across your streaming sources, to present the world of music through a lens personalized just for you.

Roon plays all of your music on every device
Roon connects your entire digital music library to the gear through which you choose to play it, offering seamless interoperability. It joins the disparate dots of your listening ecosystem and gives you the convenience to control everything in a single app.

With Roon, you are not confined to a single brand family, but rather it integrates all of your disparate audio gear with support for thousands of Roon Ready, AirPlay, Chromecast, and USB devices—it is the only solution available to those seeking to multi-room their assorted streamers and wireless speakers.

Those that do have Roon Ready devices—available through hundreds of partner brands including Cambridge Audio, Bowers & Wilkins, Elac, and Bluesound—will find simple setup, reliability, and support for the highest level of digital audio performance in the industry. Roon is a transformation in the way music lovers engage with and listen to their music. Instead of being locked into the limitations set by each streaming service or piece of gear, Roon uniquely gives its users full control over how they navigate through the otherwise staggering volume of music available in today’s digital universe.

Get the best possible sound quality from your audio gear
Anytime you play music through the Roon app, Roon works as a conduit that ties all of your inputs (i.e., music files and streaming services) and outputs (i.e., streamers and speakers) under one app, dramatically streamlining and optimizing the signal path and sound quality. Without Roon, the user would need to individually adjust the limited settings of each input to correspond to the particular tolerances of their output devices and never really know if the result was optimized. With bit-perfect playback, exhaustive format support and powerful DSP, Roon gets the best possible sound quality from your audio gear. It is also the world’s only end-to-end MQA (high-resolution streaming) support, even those without MQA-capable hardware.

“We created Roon to delight people with a passion for music and sound. By combining a browsing experience designed for music lovers with support for high-resolution playback on over a thousand audio products, Roon is the music player that definitively meets the need of music fanatics,” said Roon founder, Enno Vandermeer.

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US: Jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com
UK: Kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk

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Roon Labs Announces New Referral Program  

New York, USA – May 15​th​ 2020 – for immediate release. ​Roon Labs, creators of the ultimate  music browsing experience, is delighted to announce its new Referral Program.

The new referral  initiative is designed to encourage its loyal community to share their love of Roon with their  friends and family, while earning rewards.  
To start taking part, existing subscribers simply have to visit their Roon account page to find their  unique referral link and start sharing.

When a new customer signs up for Roon using a referral  code sent to them from an existing Roon user, both users will get an extra month of Roon for free  when they activate their subscription. 

Enno Vandermeer, founder and CEO of Roon Labs comments: ​“Our subscribers have long been  asking for an easy way to let others know about Roon, and we’ve finally cracked it. Now with a  personalized shareable link, you can give value to friends in addition to receiving rewards for yourself.”     

Contact:

US: Jaclyn@starscreamcommunications.com

UK: Kash@starscreamcommunications.co.uk


About Roon Labs  

Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics,  tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a  surfable, searchable digital magazine about your entire music collection.  
Roon also links all of your personal files with the millions of tracks available on TIDAL and Qobuz,  so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world  beyond your collection. Roon runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs as a server, with an  Android or iOS smartphone/tablet used as a control point.