Roon is the consensus choice amongst audiophiles.

I’ve used it in a high end store- it’s fabulous.

It does cost though, but for those who invest in it, they absolutely love it

.....and it is pretty hungry on the server side.

Not that someone thinks that a simple tablet will do the job.

MM

I have had Roon over a year and used it most nights of the week and it is indeed solid and well constructed software but is it aesthetically simple and pleasing? I’m not so sure. I have been playing with the Moment and I’m beginning to feel a stronger pull to the Moment’s software which is to my eyes simpler, cleaner and connects more emotionally. Complication if not aggressively reined in and well hidden is the enemy of aesthetics. There are too many pages on Roon and the queue functionality is confusing even now for my wife and I. It’s not intuitive. To my mind the less the software requires fiddling and the faster it makes you sit back down to listen, the better. The Roon software makes you to fiddle with it and draws out the ADHD in you. I don’t like the way you have to tap the option button and then select radio and the swipe more and then tap and the general appearance is cumbersome on the iPhone. Despite this, I still think Roon is stellar but I’m slowly falling in love with Moment’s software. Sadly, Moment was awful for a long time and has only now just reached stability and maturity. If they could allow Moment’s software to run on an iPhone or Android, I think it would rise to fame. If I had to pick one for life based on aesthetics, simplicity and pleasing on the eye, I’d probably take the Moment over Roon. Now that surprises me as I was a Roon fanatic for ages.

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I had vaguely thought about getting a moment but for a long time much of the functionality was overkill for my needs given that I don't have a multiroom setup and more interested in physical media than subscription net services. I may see if I can pick one up second hand though.

I guess the original question was for when I want to browse music on my phone or on my laptop when I'm working. I was trying to show a friend an album on my phone yesterday and itunes on that is dreadful, worse than what the ipod had a decade ago. The version on Mac is not much better, trying to browse things on that reminds me of a CRM system at workm it's just not pleasant.

Years ago, B&O had an app that could access the music on your iPhone. I much preferred that to the iTunes. Shame it disappeared. If anyone knows how to get that App back I’d be a very happy man.

PLEX is very good to my point of view.

With it I can not only smartly browse and play my DLNA collection with a mobile app, a web UI or a TV app, but I can also access it remotely and cast it to the location I’m in assuming there is a cast or AP facility, or I can sync selected content to my smartphone for off line listening.

Where did the Beoplayer App for iPhone go?

Can you get it back?

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A good question that sadly I don't have an answer to. iTunes has been getting steadily worse ever since they got rid of coverflow. I often wonder if the purveyors of this kind of application have ever even heard the phrase human factors engineering.

The interface to my Auralic is OK, not stunning, but sparse and efficient. Wouldn't mind something more eye appealing but at least it's far better than iTunes.