Quite a number of Roon’s metadata providers’ covers seem to come from scans of printed material.
Whatever the cause of this disaster, the result is fugly, fuzzy, halftoned images, with black points all over the place, so no visual consistency. It isn’t Roon’s fault, but it makes everything looks sloppier than it should.
Of course, since better quality sources are often available, it’s possible to manually correct the offending images, and avoid the repulsive sight of a bunch of dust crammed onto a fuzzy dot pattern stolen from God knows where, but it’s a bit of a pain, and there’s also the question of what happens if or when there’s some type of database drama.
So, coupla things…
a) Would it be possible to give more weight to quality over definition, or to a provider that takes care in what they do ?
b) Would it be possible to have an “export custom data to original file” option / toggle / whatever, that’d export just the data the user changed ?
c) if a) and b) are impossible, would it be possible to enable flagging of the offending art, so that some mechanical turk, somewhere, can have a look at it and protect others from the eye-gouging sight of some of the art that more negligent mechanical turks let through ?
if a), b) and c) are impossible, would it be possible to enable sharing of corrected artwork between Roon users, which both might save people work, and might provide a bit of solace as to it at least sparing other users the waste of time ?