Plexamp (by Plex) costs $4/month or $40/year. It offers sonic analysis, sonic adventure (DJ mode), and headless playback. It is not as beautiful as Roon, but it is 90% of the functionality for 10% of the price.
This is the versioning goldmine. In the official Roon release timeline, version was a landmark build. It hit the market in late 2018 to early 2019. Why is this significant? Because version 1.6 predates Roon’s aggressive anti-piracy telemetry (version 1.7) and the mandatory online authorization checks that came with version 1.8. For crackers and reverse engineers, 1.6.475 represents the "last great version" before the locks became truly complex. Roon-1.6.475-macOS-fu11.7z
Let us be unequivocal: