Audiophilepure

https://www.stereophile.com/content/it-isnt-just-music

Until each track and album is tagged with reliable metadata—and your streaming appliance or app displays it—it’s impossible to know exactly what you’re hearing. Some listeners may not care, but we do, and we think others do.

Another form of control over music, and an important one, is search. Searching physical media may be laborious, but if your organization scheme is sound and you stick to it, you will find what you’re looking for, and you know when you’ve found it, since you’re holding it in your hands. Generally, streaming search engines are reliable and useful only for common, simple music. Search the same terms on Spotify and Qobuz, and you’ll likely get different results—maybe not for “Taylor Swift Red,” but try “Dorati Stravinsky” or “Copland Bernstein.” Many audiophiles have chosen Roon for this reason—because of its superior, cross-platform search capabilities. But from a search perspective, Roon is hardly ideal—and it doesn’t incorporate the two most popular streamers, Spotify and Apple Music. What’s more, though Roon adds data on many recordings versus what the streaming apps provide, that data is tied to titles and not to specific releases. For instance, multiple versions of Kind of Blue list all the engineers who ever remastered it instead of the correct person for that version

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