It would be a really great enhancement if Roon would include the following features.
An option in Search to edit a selected last searched string. This is already possible in Android. Now, if you select a remembered search string Roon immediately searches that string and doesn’t allow editing it so you have to type it in completely again with your modification. Very frustrating.
Often there are a couple of different versions of an Album in Qobuz or Tidal. There is no information about those versions, like which remaster, or studio, or label or whatever info that helps identify the particular version (see discogs for example). Also, it would be nice to know whether a hires version is just an upsampled 44.1/16bit or truly remastered hires.
It would be nice if one could mark tracks or albums one finds when using Roon, like in the recommended albums or similar artist sections, as “listen later” or “for review”, maybe like a automatic temporary playlist. Now you can only add them to your library and later delete them if you don’t like it, but that often drowns in the library and becomes messy.
Just for 3, you can add them to the library and then tag them with a custom tag. Later you can choose to display only albums with that tag. It’s indeed a bit annoying having to add them first, but there are lots of issues caused by this in-library/not-library distinction. It will IMHO at one point require a big change to the architecture
For 2, I don’t know if this info is available in streaming services, I doubt it. In Discogs the releases are of course identified by various codes imprinted in the physical object, so that’s different
1 recently surprised me because it was possible for the last search when reopening the search menu. I’m on earlyaccess, maybe new there? Would have to check when home
Regarding 3, For me it’s very annoying to have to add to library first. Indeed the in or not in library distinction needs to be made. Important! Current workaround is not sustainable
IMHO.
For 2, indeed depends on available meta info from service. I was hoping that if Roon asks for this from services it’s a better chance it will be made than if each individual does at his own account. But right now it’s rediculous there’s no information at all about those versions.
Regarding 1. For me the search has always behaved like that for the last 3 years, since i started using Roon.
What annoys me to no end is that this is not moved to the Version field in Roon at least when it is added to the library, although there is this setting, but this seems to work only for local import files, not for streaming:
So I always have to edit the title manually and move it to Versions
(I hate having it in the title, it’s not a part of the title)
If there is none and there are simply several different releases with no info, it’s annoying but I doubt Roon has much influence on the partners in this regard
Regarding the search, yes, I thought it did for me as well, which is why I was surprised recently. This is what it does now:
I search for “something something” and the search menu closes
When I open the search menu again, there is “something something” still in the field and can be edited. Not sure if this is new but I thought it might be
If you can find and display something, you can tag, add to a playlist, lots of things. It’s manipulating the metadata in the database, isn’t it? That shouldn’t rely on anything outside any more than finding the release in the first place did. Doesn’t seem like a major architectural change to me.
Besides that, there are quite some albums which have been remastered and an indication whether it was an SHM or Analogue Productions or MoFi or other, would be sooo useful.
There are a hundred issues in Roon, well documented, that occur because there is such a big difference whether something is in the library or not. Most obviously, if you play Roon Radio you can’t heart a track if the album is not yet in the library. Many others, e.g. if you edit an album and add a credit, the artist is not found if you have no album in the library where the artist is credited by default. So you add the artist entry. Later, you add another album where the artist is already credited by default. Now you have two of them, your own (without a bio) and the default one, often with a bio and other info. You can merge them, but it’s a mess. There is a whole feature suggestion thread about issues caused by the distinction.
Some of these may be more easily fixable, but the difference permeating Roon everywhere is probably pretty fundamental
For 3, why don’t you add the album (/track) directly to a playlist (as suggested by yourself), without adding to My Library,
Create a new playlist ‘still to play’ ( or whatever name you want to give it) and you are good to go.
Personally I prefer to work with tags, which means I do add to My Library first.
Thanks. I see that this is possible. But in terms of usability still not great, requiring multiple clicks, whereas it should be as simple as placing a heart on a track or album, which btw also only works if album is already in library
If Roon’s major USP is about browsing a world of music at your fingertips, for which I admit it’s awesome, I’d like tagging music for later review to be a feature that’s in the top 10.
That’scwhy I prefer to work with Tags.
Allows for Focus on e.g. year, when added to Library, genre, ….
More ‘work’ at the start, much better control afterwards.
