This is a reducto ad absurdium argument which taken to it’s conclusion says you may as well close the forums given the tiny % of users on them.
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500 votes are a lot, but it’s still worthwhile to keep in mind the overall user number and the fact that we have no real understanding of how these 500 votes map to the overall userbase.
It’s the best we’ve got
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I don’t feel like repeating the other things I already said that you left out when you quoted “Out of 300K users” out of context.
Danny at least said that they got much less pushback than they expected. Whatever this means. Point is we don’t really know as we don’t have the data
What context was it used in?
My twenty posts in the past 2 hours and the several tens of posts in this thread and the other 1000-post thread that I made when this was a new topic.
/I’m out of here
its 300 more than for ARC.
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If the context were something other than you making a point that 500 votes is 0.16% if the user base, I’d be at pains to explain what it was.
I have a local music file, and a local database indexing that file - but I can’t find either without an internet connection? This IMO is the most ridiculous thing ever! And if anyone else could find this thread, I’m sure they would have voted too, lol…
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Well we know there are at least 1000 in one topic and 500 in a closely related topic - so “somewhere between 1000 and 1500” in case some of the 500 are not also part of the 1000. I suspect it’s closer to 1000 than 1500 as I imagine a lot of overlaps but still a very significant statistical sample.
By the way, it’s not “posts”, which can be duplicated, it’s “Votes” and it only lets you press it once for any topic. 1000 People coming to the forum and voting for this is a huge indicator.
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I’m sure someone can correct me, but I’m not really sure ANY feature suggestion has EVER been implemented, regardless of number of votes - the exception being ARC… IMO, it’s a lost cause.
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Local search isn’t computationally intensive at all. If it’s just local, you index it and search the index. As I’ve pointed out before, Swinsian will search ~12 TB of FLAC in real time as you type your query. So will Mac Spotlight. And the spotlight database is freely available to developers…
I will never understand why Roon don’t avail themselves of this. Before someone pipes up about feature parity with Windows, I’ll guess that there is some sort of indexed search feature there, too.
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Yes, I read exactly that. But I also know such fall-backs are implemented in enterprise-level software and work just fine and doesn’t limit anything.
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I think it was something to be voted on, but I may be wrong…might be before voting was implemented. Anyway, coming from Sonos I was baffled that I could not control the volume of a device with the hard buttons on my phone. I remember many posts asking for that, myself included. It did finally get implemented. So I think at least one other request voted on got rolled out.
As for ARC, why bother it is just so terrible. I’m a software developer by profession. If I released something like that I’d be embarrassed for me and my co-workers. Zero functionality on my end.
Well done on Volume control. Not sure one out of XXX is something to celebrate.
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I would support some kind of local, limited search that would keep Roon functioning in the event of an internet outage. Does not have to be super sophisticated, but indexing and searching local meta-data is surely not that difficult?
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And there is NO web-service-based search in roon as of now. All searching is done locally still. If I am not very mistaken at the moment roon is only looking for some heartbeat in order to ensure one is not using the same license several times. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Since search results for me are producing results from outside of my local content, then I conclude that searching in the cloud service is still active…
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This is from the very top of this thread over a year ago : danny:
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That logic makes sense. However, I don’t need to search to play music. I would rather lose search when offline but still be able to play my music.
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