1.8 - The start of a move from a Library system toward a Music Discovery streaming-led future?

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@Matt_Simpson

as promised, here the statement of @brian, CTO of Roon from 10 days ago.

3 paragraphs of „bragging“ about how they improved classical Music

@brian

This is the first release where we have really treated classical as its own thing.

Previously, we tried find a framework that fit all kinds of music, and we jammed everything into it. This caused classical to suffer quite a bit, and didn’t serve other genres so well either. We had some very “deep cut” classical features like allowing to sort by composer catalog numbers, but we were missing basics like letting you see your Beethoven albums. It was really in disarray.

In 1.8, we have shifted to treating classical music like its own use case and we’re respecting it directly. This manifests in dozens of small and large ways in the product. Once we gave ourselves permission to build classical-specific features for classical artists, composers, albums, genres, and compositions, it gave us the tools to overcome many of the old problems and also do some interesting new stuff.

Where is the positive impact of all this on my library? I fail to see it.