Samsung’s Harman acquires music management and streaming platform Roon

Harman, owned by Samsung, comes announcement it acquired Roon, a music management, discovery and streaming platform. The music player platform for music enthusiasts is available for all popular operating systems and manufactures a line of server devices called Nucleus.

According to the announcement, Roon will continue to operate as a standalone Harman company, so there will be no changes for employees other than working for a much larger company.

“At HARMAN, we take great pride in our ability to create exceptional audio experiences for our partners and consumers around the world. The Roon team shares our passion for bringing great sound and connectivity to music lovers as they browse, discover and listen at home and on the go. We look forward to welcoming Roon, whose impressive talent will join the HARMAN family and strengthen our already strong engineering capabilities.” said Dave Rogers, president of HARMAN’s Lifestyle division. Most importantly, Harman says it plans to expand Roon’s open device ecosystem, which includes collaborations with more than 160 other audio brands, thereby providing audio to over 1,000 high-performance devices.

Roon’s ecosystem works with apps from major music streaming services and can stream to all your audio devices, whether they’re on your network or connected via USB/HDMI. You can even play a different song in each room if you have multiple audio devices.

And with the company’s Roon ARC app, you can manage your Roon library using your phone, wherever you are.