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Roon is subscription-based music playback software that, unlike online music service subscriptions (like Spotify, TIDAL, etc.), contains no music. The Roon software evolved from the Sooloos music server software originally launched in 2004. Roon Labs was born when Meridian Audio launched it as an independent company in 2015. Roon is a perfect solution for those of us with large and unwieldy music collections.
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Oh yeah… and I’m a recent Roon convert! Do you love the tangible experience of vinyl? How you interact with your music in a physical sense? Who Is Roon For? Although my limited budget often makes those choices difficult.
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I’ve got Yonomi for streaming station Alexa voice control and House Band that can actually search my local collection and put together on the fly playlists by artist, album, etc.I should mention that I’m a guy who always appreciates the free or low-cost option, but is not averse to paying for quality. I’m REALLY liking this – and I’ve just gotten started. Boom, the Sonos speaker starts playing Abba Radio.īonus! I get a notification on my Apple Watch showing what routine is being run. I can now tell Alexa to Turn on Fun Stuff. Note: every time you add a new routine you will need to return to the Echo App and run discovery, the routines are not added automatically think of them as devices that need to be discovered every time a new one is added). Yonomi, the Sonos Speakers, and the Routines were discovered. I opened the Echo app from a computer ( ) and navigated to Smarthome and ran Discovery. I selected Favorites in the Yonomi App and added Fun StuffĤ. (You want to avoid using names that might trigger Amazon Music to play directly on the Echo, which is why I didn’t name it Abba Radio.ģ. I created a new routine without a location or time based trigger that sent my Favorite:Abba Radio (Pandora Station) to my Living Room Sonos and named it “Fun Stuff”. I downloaded the Yonomi app and set up and account and then ran Discovery and it found my Sonos Speakers. Here’s a short video where I turn on a lamp and then start a Pandora Station that plays ABBA radio using a Yonomi routine called “Fun Stuff” to my Living Room Sonos:ġ. I’ve got all kinds of “things” provisioned in the Echo App. Yonomi works using routines that you can set up based on time and/or location, but you don’t need to make routines dependent on those criteria, you can just set up a routine that you can summon on demand, and once you hook up via the Smarthome menu on the Echo App, Alexa can TURN ON (routine name).
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I’ve got Pandora Radio fav’s, Amazon Prime Stations, Tune In Radio, plus some of my own local playlists. I’ve got a bunch of streaming stations configured in Sonos and all are added to my Sonos favorites. Last night I found a great solution in the Yonomi App (available for iOS and Android) that just this week added Alexa integration. What was missing was a way to summon and play my cloud based streaming stations using Alexa’s voice control. I found a “wow” solution for DLNA control using JRiver Media Center and a powerful Alexa skill called House Band. Earlier this week I started a quest to include my Sonos speakers in my Connected Home in order to control them and action music with my Amazon Echo.