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The Roon playlist Classical Weekend is listed, typically, by Artist, with no mention of the Composer! I thought the metadata for classical music had been revised to include this trifling detail. Summer Dreams For Piano is performed by Genova and Dimitrov, but who the f*** wrote the piece? Does it even matter?
Youāre right, things could be easier to find out, butā¦
ā¦ if you click the three dots to the right of the title in question and then click āGo toā¦ā the album, all desired info is laid bare:
Itās Amy Beach!
Clunky, but there! Thanks. But why oh why canāt Roon have a column with the Composer? I mean, isnāt that the most important thing? I failed to see any benefit from the new Roon build, and it obviously didnāt address what I consider to be a basic issue. i.e. not just āSymphonyā but whose symphony?
To be fair, the album title reads Beach: Complete Works for Piano Duoā¦ so with your example, the composer is indirectly mentioned. But not so in other pieces of the playlist. It seems as if the playlist feature simply doesnāt differentiate between āclassicalā pieces where the composer info is vital, and ānon-classicalā pieces where it is less soā¦
My grievance with this particular list is the selection of Anne-Sophie Mutter and Salvatore Accardoās recording of Bachās Double Concertā¦ that to me seems a really bad choiceā¦
When I see a playlist, I want to know who the composer of each piece is. I am not going to click on every track to see the composer. Itās clear to me that Roon are not bothered about people who listen to classical music. The same applies to Your Daily Mixes. One of mine reads, āJames Horner Mix, Featuring John Williams, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles and more.ā Really? Playing what? Worse than useless! Itās a āfeatureā thatās unusable, at least as far as Iām concerned.
Donāt think thatās the case. But anyway, I get that right now you are really offended and annoyed because of the missing composer columnā¦
To tell you the truth, itās been building up for months, but you learn to ring-fence aspects that donāt work. However, itās rather galling to be paying monthly for an inferior (in this respect) service, and to see successive new builds that seem to have no effect and to focus on cosmetic improvements (peopleās album art!), which I, for one, never even notice. Iām waiting for Appleās launch of Primephonic, and then I will be off!
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