Article: Roon 1.3 Major Update Coming Today

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I think a one day Roon lifetime membership discount is in order! @The Computer Audiophile - Make it happen! ;-)

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Downloading 1.3 build 192 in this moment

 

Installed and working here.

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That's disappointing, but thanks for the response and updates Chris (invaluable service to the community). For the moment, I shall remain on the fence....

 

Up-sampling is working and there.

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Where is this EQ in Roon 1.3? I've looked everywhere but nothing...

 

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I'll also add it here.

 

You can share to FB, Twitter or just your desktop. So many features in this build!

 

 

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Finally a way to export the whole library or playlist.

 

 

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My update went fine, took awhile as it had to re-scan everything - I'm assuming that's by design.

 

I know GUI design can be pretty volatile and opinionated, but one thing that I'm still not crazy about is the massive browsing real-estate needed for certain things. I know its part of the roon experience, I get it, but I wish there was the ability or another "View" in addition to "Overview, Discover" etc.. that one could maybe customize.

 

Meaning if I view by artist I get two rows of four large icons. So in order to scroll/browse through your artists it could take a very long time depending on the size of ones library (inefficient imo).

 

Now maybe there are better ways to accomplish this as I'm still learning this app.

 

That just means your computer isn't up to the task. I can search and it's instant. Everything is crazy quick with my computer.

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No, I guess my description wasn't clear. Has nothing to do with the computer speed at all - I'm running controller on laptop and has no lag browsing/searching etc..

 

Its the real-estate. I get "eight artists" (two rows of four) across the top due to the huge icon size. Change the size of the icon (smaller or make it sizeable) or even have it list just the name and you would have a significant amount of artists listed/available to view per "scroll/screen".

 

Listing by Tracks isn't the same or what I'm referring to either.

 

How about you post a screen shot?

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Have noticed that CPU usage on my server is much less with 1.3. That's a good thing.

 

That's one of the major things they've said they wanted to do. Mission accomplished!

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My Xeon CPU is maxed out, as are the drives, while Roon 1.3 re-analyzes all the files.

 

What are the specs of your turtle?

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Intel Xeon 3.5 GHz CPU and LSI raid card.

 

Here are some images.

 

 

Hmm. 45% and 20% isn't all that bad though. Mine is much less but still.

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So far I like it much better than using HQPlayer, which always artificially softened the sound. I'll play with it more but so far it's a win for me.

 

That's really nice to hear. I pretty much decided that even though HQP is touted as the "best" the GUI and whole complexity of it turned me off so I would stick with Roon as it's only going to get better. I must say I'm impressed by the up-sampling already with Roon.

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Upsampling redbook to 24/176 is sounding much better in Roon->HQP->NAA than Roon->RoonReady (both to microRendu). Piano color is realisitic with HQP, female voices natural. Roon upsampling is sounding both veiled AND strident.

 

But I'm loving v1.3 otherwise!

 

If you put HQP aside do you think that Roon up-sampling from PCM is better than just PCM playback?

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I have just over 100k tracks, directly attached via Firewire to 2011 Mac Mini (2.5Ghz i5, 8GB RAM). Initial scan (i.e., adding / verifying files) took minutes (far less than 30 minutes), but the DR scan, etc., took the better part of a week, running on 3 cores most of the time (if I switched to 4 cores, it started interrupting playback).

 

I had all 8 cores running on my massive workstation I built and it ripped through them all in the day all while playing music. Computer HP still wins!