I have a huge number of bootleg live concerts, especially Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. In Plex, i have extensive liner notes and concert reviews of these albums. If Plex – a free program – can do it, there is no excuse for Roon not to incorporate such a fundamental feature into its software, which is the most expensive media server on the market. Get with the program!
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Hi Philip, I am cautiously optimistic that no news is good news in this regard and that Roon is beavering away at implementing now a range of long standing known bugs, halfbaked implementations and really wanted relatively easy implentations. There are several…
The editing of reviews and bios
The fix of the … bug when exporting (ie albums with … in their names don’t get exported)
For me, at least, the use of a weird filename for the embedded picture file which makes display of exported files on portable devices not possible for the most part
And so on…
I’ll create a main thread for this. Givem food for thought!
I have ranted about this before, but what the heck, will be fun to do it again:
I find it really annoying, when enjoying one of my favorite albums, that I find myself reading a negative “review” from some rando from All Music or wherever. Let us tweak!
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I feel that with every “huge” update they keep adding stuff, but they don’t really address the issues we have all been asking for now for years, even though they claim it’s on the longer roadmap. Of course I love that you can now actually search and find the music you are looking for in Roon after 1.6, but please start focusing on your metadata providers! Discogs would be a great place to start.
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Another vote from me. I’ve been waiting for this feature for a long time…
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Agreed, so have many folk whose tastes are not in the main North American.
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Has there been any updates on the discogs implementation and been able to add your own album reviews as if these two things were implemented this would make me get a subscription, as it stands I can use Plex which allows me to add the metadata content I want. I really like roon and way it works, shame this has not been done yet as the option to edit album reviews within the software seems like something easy to do as well. Here’s hoping it’s not to far off.
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Would it really be that much effort to add the capability to import an artist biography from a text file?
This is what I am waiting for. This one, what I would call simple feature is the only thing stopping me from getting a roon membership.
We all live in hope 
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I’d love to see something like this. I find myself wanting to note down why I liked something (or why I didn’t like it).
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I have found that if I come across really interesting albums reviews, I’ll PDF them and drop them into the directory so it can be easily accessed from within Roon. Still, not the same as private comments.
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Great idea.
Version 1.7 feature? Cmon Roon, don’t be so secretive. Throw the dogs a bone
Some relevant chat over on this thread -
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I see album reviews for some albums (which I didn’t enter) and descriptive information about some composers. Not many albums or composers show anything at all. If it isn’t currently possible for me as a user to introduce such material, I’d like you to add the capability for me to do that. If this is currently possible, please advise how to do it.
The capability could be a copy and paste operation, or it could be entering a URL link to something like wikipedia or other site. If a link, a capability for multiple links would be appropriate.
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I couldn’t agree more. I am perplexed why Roon staff do not reply to posts like these. I’ve read some excuses on the forum about the difficulty of implementing multi-line edit fields, but why make it so difficult? Why not just provide the facility to import a text file for an artist bio or album review in the same way as you can import your own image. Simple.
What I’ve heard, is that they need to keep count/track of what reviews/bios are accessed…
A lot of us work in IT and this is not hard to track. It’s a field like EVERY other field in Roon - PREFER ROON or FILE or EDIT, and just allows a few more characters than say TITLE or ARTIST.
This would be great. It’s weird that everything is customizable - except reviews. And as great and exhaustive as AllMusic is for 20th Century music - after about 2005 or so it really starts to get spotty - many, many albums with no rating, no review, no nothing. Probably around the same time it was taken over and began to be milked for every last penny by the new corporate overlords. Which meant the site began to be riddled with ads to the point that the site won’t actually load sometimes, and probably included staff cutbacks which means that it’s no longer able to live up to its name of ALLmusic. So many orphaned albums ignored by allmusic - why not at the very least be able to write your own review where there isn’t one?
I suspect the lack of this feature, and radio silence from Roon staff, is somehow tied to the licensing agreements they have entered into with the metadata providers. Just a guess. I’m not sure why else a review couldn’t be edited the same way anything else is editable, as Charles pointed out above. Who knows, it might be a bit tricky to implement. But this is certainly not an insurmountable issue from a technical standpoint, and it’s certainly not for lack of interest from users, as many have made noise about it, and plus it seems like such an obvious no-brainer - so it has to be something else keeping this from happening.
For now I would be happy with the simple ability to run a google search from roon. Like you have in Kindle when you highlight a term - options to search dictionary, wiki or web. If I want reviews on an album I can look them up, but it would be great to have such a shortcut. The ability to then save what you found to the specific album or artist would be a bonus.
But I suspect this is a copyright issue more than a technical one. Many such online reviews will have copyright; once Roon is using them in a paid product they would presumably have to pay royalties or have some sort of copyright agreement with the owners.
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