All my albums and playlists are then easily available as decent-enough AAC files for streaming or download on my iPhone. Apple syncs my entire iTunes library and playlists from the Nucleus SSD to Apple’s servers, including my albums that are not available in iTunes (for me, Tidal doesn’t have enough of my music, and it’s hard to sync playlists haven’t tried Qobuz yet). One of these options has quite good sound quality for a small investment, and one has superb sound quality for a larger investment:įor very good and cheap mobile playback: I subscribe to Apple Music for $10/month. Basing my Roon library in iTunes this way allows the following two easy mobile options for shifting from my Roon setup while on the go. I add a few extra tags and things in Roon as a bonus. I do all my organizing and playlist changes in iTunes. My approach has been to keep my Roon library in iTunes at home (in my case on an SSD in my Nucleus) and just have Roon watch the iTunes folder.
I rely completely on Roon at home and my mobile solutions have been very satisfactory.
In case this is helpful to anyone here regarding mobile options currently (although these options may be in some jeopardy now that Apple has just announced ‘the end of iTunes as we know it’, starting with the next Mac OS update it will depend on whether the Apple Music options that replace it still allow the same functionality and whether that will still work with Roon it sounds like they probably will still work similarly):