The small Roon poll.

[bluesman]

For me, the unasked question of most importance is whether I was surprised at the number of changes, oversights, errors, omissions, and inconsistencies in a product whose most endearing characteristic (at least for me) has been its sophisticated, coherent, and user friendly nature from inception to now.  The answer is a resounding YES!  I think a lot of us who consider Roon to be our default music management system are both shocked and dismayed that 1.8 contains a healthy dose of the unpleasantness we left behind in migrating to it from other programs.

 

Roon has been my main music management program for some time now.  Especially after reviewing it for AS two surprisingly long years ago in a comparison with JRiver Media Center, I've come to think of Roon Labs as being current, lithe, understated, solid, reliable, responsive, intuitive, flexible, and a solidly going concern.  I hope and believe that this is still correct and that the myriad of new issues is rapidly remedied.

 

We have the first major example of a Roon update that requires their urgent attention.  Just as Apple has often had to patch iOS within hours of a release because of an undetected or previously ignored problem set, Roon really needs to patch 1.8 or replace it with 1.9 ASAP to restore the elegance.  Hopefully unike the plethora of iOS issues, this will turn out to have been an isolated and non-recurring event.  This is only one strike and (to me) not a reason to find another team to support.  The music sounds as good as ever.

[bluesman]

On 2/14/2021 at 5:08 AM, R1200CL said:

Hi @PeterSt It’s not possible to edit a poll. What didn’t know was the requirement thing. Probably @The Computer Audiophile can explain or solve small issues like this. It seems however your vote was registered if your the only one says I don’t use Roon. I made the poll anonymously.

The solution that jumps out at me for future pollsters using the function as it is now is to start with the disclaimer “For [Roon] Users Only” and the simple instruction to participate only if you use / engage in / own / have experience with the focus of the poll.  FWIW, Chris, Survey Monkey will let you create qualifying questions that will terminate the poll for those who don’t meet inclusion criteria (instructions here). I don’t know what code powers the AS poll function, but it’s often easy to add this feature.