Bigger artwork for 'Now Playing' [coming in first release post-1.6]

[allan2 (Allan)]

@danny

but take a deep breath and help us figure out what you so clearly can see. Give us more to work with and we will do our best.

I would not describe the UI as disastrous. Overall, version 1.6 is a significant improvement in many areas and Danny’s team should be commended.

Danny, with regards to your request for constructive suggestions. I did so, and provided detailed comments, on the two issues of greatest concern to me. I hope that my detailed suggestions are helpful.

I did so in the threads on those two specific issues.

The first issue is how to incorporate album covers in the Now Playing window while retaining the great improvements you have already made in that window. I offered detailed suggestions here:

"Album View" in Now Playing?

In a different thread, there is discussion of whether we can roll back to a prior version of Roon. I strongly disagree with that conclusion, as it is clear that the new version brings many benefits. Those benefits include improvements in the Now Playing window. The new set of icons to quickly call up artist bios and info on the album that is playing are great. That provides great functionality for some of the most important features of Roon. My own criticism of the UI work was not fair or …

The second issue is the streaming lyrics, which are a major improvement in the UI and one that I have been looking forward to for many months! However, the new streaming lyrics often fail and only work about half of the time, or even less. You should consider a better algorithm or technology vendor for that function.

More importantly, you need to fix how static lyrics that do not scroll are presented in the Now Playing window. I offered detailed suggestions on lyrics here:

Lyrics in version 1.6 is a step backwards

Quoting from Geoff from another thread, but responding here, to try to have lyrics covered in the same thread. I’m sure the moderators will appreciate that. Just to provide additional clarification as to the problem and a possible solution: (1) The issue are the automatic scrolling lyrics versus the static lyrics that do not scroll and how they appear in the Now Playing window. Brian, the CTO, explained that Therefore, these two scenarios can be handled differently and in real ti…

But overall, your team did a great job on version 1.6 and they to be thanked for the significant improvements.

Roon was, to quote from another thread I started, already fabulous and it has been significantly improved in the last version. You just need to modify a few areas IMHO.