A picture of a band from roon or Tidal that shows just one of the members, after the change in artist picture frame in 1.8
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Albums = square
Artists = round
Simple! As long as the cropping of the artist images is carried out with a bit more finesse than is currently the caseâŠ
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I was complaining to my wife last night about exactly this problem. I showed her some examples and she finally asked, âDoes it really matter?â
Iâm calling the divorce lawyer today. 
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Finally some one who is reacting sane.
Insanity rules on this forum for a while now⊠i hope it will be over soon!
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Funny that you posted this. I had a tough time adding this record (CSN Box set) to Roon with the 1.8 version. The only one, out of maybe 20 CDs, that I ripped and added to my library. I havenât noticed the picture on my Artist page, will check it out when I get home.
Peace,
Tony
YesâŠshe is definitely the reasonable one in the house.
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Oh the humanityâŠ
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Marriage is like a game of cards. At the start, all you need is a pair of diamonds.
Later, a club and a spade.
Does it matter, indeedâŠ
Actually, after almost 37 years of marriage and being together for almost 40 years, weâre still at two hearts.
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Youâre not the only one that thinks is wrong.
Artists in circle are OK with me.
Roonâs AI is simply unable to get it right automagically in many cases, like bands or photos where artists are not in the center.
Unfortunately thereâs no way for the user to âadjustâ this, be it on Roon images or user provided images.
Erik Truffaz
Manu Dibango
Eurythmics
Bobby McFerrin
Thereâs another very irritating issue under 1.8 with the artist âbannerâ on PC/MAC desktop, like HD 1920x1080 resolution: more than often itâs completely off and disrespectful of the original photo, with no way for the user to adjust. Forcing a letterbox 3:1 aspect ratio is heresy on 3:2 or 4:3 material.
Example:
You might want to try and compare artist banner with original pic for:
The Beach Boys
The Police
Peter Gabriel
Justin Timberlake
Bryan Ferry
Grace Jones
Yoko Ono
Andrea Bocelli
Sia
Prince
Rihanna
Elvis Presley
Tom Jones
Bob Dylan
Angie Stone
Erykah Badu
Buck Meek
Stevie Wonder
Troy Andrews
New York Dolls
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Ian Curtis
Sam Cooke
Daniel Barenboim
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Never seen anything other than a square album cover myself , have reverted back to V1.7
29 years and ditto. But she regards my hifi habit as something to be smiled at sweetly if disbelievinglyâŠ
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Sure there is. Just add your own appropriately cropped image if this is bugging youâŠ
There are 10s of thousands of artists in the data that Roon has and it wouldnât surprise me if itâs up to 100k or more. Theyâve tried to have an algorithm to automatically crop an image to what displays in the circular window. This is very hard to get right and you canât do this by hand. So that creates issues like youâve noted with some artists. Over time the algorithm will likely get better, but in the mean time itâs really easy to fix anything that bugs you. Took me about 30 seconds to fix eric⊠Of course, it would be great if Roon added the ability to move the circular crop window around yourself to fix the image they are displayingâŠ
But if Roon has a bigger picture, yourâs will be not be displayed
Dirk
Iâve never seen this. If you add an artist image, thatâs the one that is used.
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Every time I open Roon, the new UI screams at me and I am at the point where I donât even want to use Roon. Itâs just way too annoyingâŠfor ME. I never liked the Qobuz app UI, and was pleased with the 1.7 UI. The 1.8 UI is more like the old Qobuz UI and that is a massive step backwardâŠfor ME.
I may stop using Roon for a while and use music service via their own apps. While I like many of the features of Roon, I just canât stand using the new UI. It just drives me crazy. AgainâŠthatâs ME. Not even remotely suggesting anyone else does, or should, feel that way.
At this point, I wish I hadnât gone with a lifetime subscription a year ago, because I wouldnât be renewing an annual subscription at this point. Thatâs how bad the UI isâŠfor ME. It just makes me not want to open the app. I know many will find that silly, but thatâs how I feel about it.
If they find a way to make the Home Screen user configurable, that would help significantly. It canât be that hard can it? Every phone and tablet offers that ability after all? I donât know. Iâm not a software engineer.
But there are so many other aspects of the Home Screen that are awfulâŠto meâŠthat simply allowing users to move and hide tiles wonât fix it for me. Would simply make it less awfulâŠfor ME.
I shall stop whining about the UI now. Sorry for the rant.
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Noted something else with artist image treatment. (Only checked on android mobile)
Most artist imagery at the top of the individual artist page always gets a banner / rectangular treatment. But, weirdly IMO, a good number of artists in my library will alternate between banner and âcircleâ on subseqent visits.
A deliberate choice related to applying the cropping algorithm? (I found none that always / only show in circles btw)
e.g. in the alphabetically sorted first 100 library artists that have a picture, I have 21 that receive the alternating treatment. Including:
A House
Abbey Lincoln
Afrocubism
Al Kooper
Alamo Racetrack
Ali Farka Touré
Andy Irvine
Angel Deradoorian
Angélique Kidjo
Anna Netrebko
On my 10 most recent NRFY album recommendations with an artist that has image material, I see 4 that get the âalternatingâ treatment:
Portrayal of Guilt
Ethan Iverson
Nikita Karmen
Lia Ices
Three example below
Afrocubism
alternates with
Angélique Kidjo
alternates with
Portrayal of Guilt
alternates with
actually i did add the pictures. and now, with the changed format⊠they are not well displayed anymoreâŠ
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