Roon 1.8 Discussion

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Have anyone found out how to use focus to display or not display MQA 16 bit ?

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News from Apple. Soon you can use Siri to control Roon 😀

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 But, you can’t filter 16 bit and 24 bit ?

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You can rotate iPad 😀

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This isn’t working very well on an iPad. 
Also we was told focus should work on both Tidal and Qobuz. Don’t seem so, or ?

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It’s a mess. No consistency. I could find so many examples. 

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5 hours ago, asdf1000 said:

 

Where's this news?

It’s actually about that Apple allows you to switch standard player in iOS 14.5. 
https://the8-bit.com/siri-now-allows-setting-a-default-music-streaming-service-on-ios-14-5/

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6 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

This is interesting. 

 

It should be working now. At least it does for me. 

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Interesting results already 😀 Majority like 1.8. 

https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/62005-the-small-roon-poll/

Why not share your data. (Anonymous). 

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56 minutes ago, DancingSea said:

I have a lifetime subscription, but am holding off to upgrade to 1.8 until the bugs are fixed, thus have no direct experience or opinion on 1.8.

It’s really not bugs. Rather features 😂

Unless there something special you’re after, I don’t think the upgrade would harm your music experience. Rather the opposite.

 

If you have an available PC, just install and test it out.

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2 minutes ago, firedog said:

Changed the font, too:

 

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/customizing-the-roon-theme/142548/42

 

This telling me that upcoming Roon updates will be very promising. 

The ultimate choice for me is to chose only bit or sampling rate. (From Tidal and Qobuz). 

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19 minutes ago, k6davis said:

Roon waveform before

Can you show me a picture of this so I’m 100% sure what we’re talking about. 
 

This one ?

 

 

Why not add a request for VU meters 😀
or vst plug-ins 

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48 minutes ago, k6davis said:

 

It looked like this in 1.7. The waveform stretched across the entire screen which looked cool and made it far easier to use. They also put the currently playing artist and title above the the waveform. That way there was room for long titles without them being truncated. 

 

The way things are now, both elements are compromised, IMO.

 

I can see some changes can be done 😀 You own this album, so you have it locally, but that shouldn’t matter. 
 

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1 hour ago, k6davis said:

They also put the currently playing artist and title above the the waveform. That way there was room for long titles without them being truncated. 

Not sure I agree. Maybe I misunderstood. There’s room for long titles. (Automatic line break). 
If your issue is only length of waveform, I get your point. 

So why you like the waveform so long ? Is it important?

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Truncated. OK then. 

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3 hours ago, k6davis said:

In the above picture you posted, on the bottom left, the artist name is truncated/cut off due to lack of space. "Pat Metheny, Christian McBride, Antoni...". Plus the font is tiny. It's nice to be able read that, especially when you've moved the main page to an album that's not playing.

Don’t disagree. But try click on it. Then swipe and left/right + scroll down. (On that big picture). That’s a huge step forward. 
 

 

And some may like to enable show track info. 
 

 

Also the menu on left can scroll 😀

 

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We need to understand this:

 

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Another nice feature I didn’t know about. You can extremely quickly scroll your albums by artist name  first letter. 

The function works in other views as well. 

 

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2 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I can see it now. A Roon “app” store to purchase custom themes and extensions. 

Joking aside

 

If Roon has open up API, the app TV:Remote would be even better as one example. 

Roon App Store should be purchasing music BTW. 😀

And Roon cloud storage of cause. (That’s how Roon mobile should interface everything). 

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Great post here. (It’s loooong)

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-1-8-build-748-756-feedback/140792/1810

(Post number 1766)

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@MarkS

It’s a long short. Can you verify that you don’t have and spaces of special characters in that specific folder name ? (Maybe edit that space you have). 

You may create new folders as well for testing. 
 

Also I know from my Qnap, that you must check properties of your folders. 
 

In general my experience is that IP addresses works better than names. So that’s an test to do as well. 

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Those that like to see how Roon look like now, this short video should be helpful. 

There has been an update since video is made.