Roon 1.8 Discussion

[ray-dude]

I’m assuming dynamic range

[ShawnC]

5 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Credits are my least favorite part of version 1.8. Look up Kind of Blue and try to find who the Remastering engineers are. Sure, there's a search, but it's not a pleasant experience, especially if you just want to look through the credits. On my Apple Pro XDR Display, it takes three pages to see all the credits. A text list would be so much better. 

I’ve found when listening to an artist,  you can pick from the display screen, the track credits icon (in the upper right corner) and you get the old fashion credit list.  

[The Computer Audiophile]

1 hour ago, ShawnC said:

I’ve found when listening to an artist,  you can pick from the display screen, the track credits icon (in the upper right corner) and you get the old fashion credit list.  

But I believe that’s only per track credits. 

[ShawnC]

35 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

But I believe that’s only per track credits. 

Looks to be so.  Easier to view then the other version, for now.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Just now, ShawnC said:

Looks to be so.  Easier to view then the other version, for now.

Agree. I just wish the per track credits were as thorough as the per album credits. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

I'm starting to feel like an old grumpy guy about version 1.8, but some things are just bugging me. For example, when is anything that's gray or grayed out the thing that's enabled or working? I'd say never. However, in the Roon Ready audio options, the gray items are the ones enabled and the white ones are disabled. Counterintuitive. 

 

[R1200CL]

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

[asdf1000]

6 hours ago, R1200CL said:

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

 

Where's this news?

[AudioDoctor]

I really don't think that they needed to redesign it at all, perhaps just polish some of the rough edges up some. I personally had no problems with the way it looked previously.

[The Computer Audiophile]

This is interesting. 

 

[loop7]

At this point, I only have two points of feedback.

 

1. Just as others mentioned, I miss the easier to access album credits. 1.7 and earlier made this so simple.

 

2. I'm probably an edge case but I miss the check box tag interface.

 

I've created and have become overly reliant on an extensive list of tags which help me quickly find albums/versions. I tend to embrace change in software so I'll likely adapt quickly.

[ted_b]

5 hours ago, ray-dude said:

I’m assuming dynamic range

It's weird on two counts at least....which is why I initially didn't think it was DR:

1)  they changed the symbol/character from earlier..not sure why

2) it shows up on less than 10% of my library

 

Oh well, a nit, but thanks for the DR vote, Ray.

 

 

[new_media]

So far there is nothing in 1.8 that I consider an improvement. It's mostly a mess.

 

I have albums that show up under "overview" on the artist page, but them don't show up under "discography."

 

Right now I'm honestly regretting that I paid for a lifetime membership.

[fredg_31]

7 hours ago, ted_b said:

I'm sorry if this is not a 1.8 Roon question, but maybe instead a general one, but hadn't really seen it before.  What is this "alternate character" followed by a number?

Hello,

 

It’s dynamic range level.

[Peter_T]

Apparently Roon 1.8 thinks that everybody uses English as main language on his Ipad. I use Dutch. Now I can't see "settings". Roon  remote crashes. If I change the IOS language to English it is OK again. The problem is known on the Roon forum and Roon is "working at it".

[new_media]

For example, on the Rolling Stones artist page:

 

Under the overview tab, both the US and UK versions of Aftermath and Between the Buttons show up.

 

But under the discography tab, only the US versions appear. Why in the hell wouldn't every single album show up under the discography tab?

[firedog]

8 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

 

Oh, I found that too, Settings > General > Browsing Preferences > Customize Album Display > and a window pops up, its in there.

 

 

Yes, that's my problem. I'd already done that. The badges don't appear in all the displays. Only in some.

[firedog]

Wow, I'm really unhappy so far. If I was a new subscriber I'd cancel right now.

 

2 big gripes:

 

1. I hate the new focus. From the main home page or the albums page it is subtractive. If I pick Focus>Genre Rock I get say 100 albums displayed. If I pick focus Soul  get say, 50. If I pick Rock + Soul I get zero. Not 150.

I understand they are doing an AND command. That's very useful in some cases. They need an OR  command so it is additive, not subtractive.

It's totally counter intuitive to open my collection and get that result. I shouldn't need to navigate through the program to find a place (in Genres) where I can sort of do that.

 

This is making choosing my listening list a chore and not a pleasure.

 

2. Search/Library: EXTREMELY slow for me. Did a search for "Abbey Road" and it took 70 seconds. Literally. Same thing when I open the program and have to wait for  all of the main page to appear. Edit: From what I read at the Roon forum, this may be due to severe overload on their servers b/c everyone is downloading and using the new program. So maybe it will clear up on it's own.

[firedog]

57 minutes ago, firedog said:

Yes, that's my problem. I'd already done that. The badges don't appear in all the displays. Only in some.

For instance: did a search for "concerto for orchestra".  A group of albums appears with the badges. I click on "more" for the expanded listing: no badges in that view.

[R1200CL]

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/

[R1200CL]

6 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

This is interesting. 

 

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

[ShawnC]

I got my dark theme back this morning, Although my metrics on this home page are a mess and incorrect.

[ssh]

Why is shuffle only shuffling 5,000 tracks?

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/why-is-shuffle-only-shuffling-5-000-tracks/141103

[firedog]

29 minutes ago, ssh said:

Why is shuffle only shuffling 5,000 tracks?

 

https://community.roonlabs.com/t/why-is-shuffle-only-shuffling-5-000-tracks/141103

to each his own. I'd like to have the option to have it pick only a random 20 or 50 or 100 tracks. That's all I need at any one time, and thousands of tracks just means the actions of the program are slower.

[Bones13]

I like the ability to use Roon on iPad in vertical mode. I like the vertical scrolling.

 

Home page has gotten too busy. It would be great if one could enable/disable/reposition the various sections. I too depend on the little icons on the album cover with resolution, and Qobuz vs library source.

 

I suspect it’s time to learn how to use the Focus function to work more for me. 
 

As for some of the other issues people have discussed here, perhaps they could have been testing, and working on those issues for the past week, instead of the teaser releases over the past week.