Ping @mike Hey there, this became reality! So cool! Well done!
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Thanks!
I know there have been some requests for more editing/image grooming capabilities, but Iâm really happy with the first cut of this functionality, and Iâv been enjoying going back through my library and finding all the times I downloaded liner notes and never noticed!
One thing I am hoping to fix soon is the ability to take an image from the gallery and set it as the cover â thatâs a pretty obvious use case we missed 
Other than that, glad youâre enjoying!
How hard would it be to extend the coverage to .txt files? I have thousands of them as liner notes for live bootlegs, etc.
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Also png files, please
+1 please.
png files have been the biggest learning experience of my Apple transition. Never heard of them before I got a Mac.
There have been a number of potential improvements requested to the album art feature. Since the release of Roon 1.3, some of the discussion has been here:
@danny, would it perhaps be possible to also offer the back cover of albums? AllMusic offers this since May 2016. Unless I overlook the complexity, this shouldnât be too difficult to add, since you already share reviews with AllMusic? This would really be of added value to me. When I started digitizing my cdâs, I did scan some covers, but I stopped doing this quickly, as it absorbed a lot of time.
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@joel, if youâre commenting on the above, I wonder if you would be so kind as to comment on my proposal to improve the album art feature. I had suggesting adding the ability to remove and re-order items in Roon, as there are many entries with duplicate album covers. I had also suggested increasing the number of thumbnail images from the existing 8, at least for larger screens, and had suggested an option to allow the user to name the images (rather than just showing the filename). Thanks!
@joel, itâs been almost a month since I first asked my question. I can understand if the answer is that Roon is still negotiating, or that itâs not a priority or whatever. In fact, I would be happy with just about any answer. I just fail to see why it has to take such a long time. Probably my ignorance, but I would appreciate a reply.
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Hey guys, lots to do and I canât get back to every thread immediately, particularly when itâs really a feature request (and really one for @mike!). Iâm sorry that this one went unnoticed/unanswered for so long.
That said, back cover art (and more) is absolutely something we want to make happen. However, itâs more complicated than simply doing what allmusic does. Allmusic takes Rovi/TiVo metadata and, although it supplements it in some areas, fundamentally, itâs just Rovi. This makes it easy for them to simply serve up whatever Rovi gives them.
For us, Rovi is not enough; we need to fill in very real album coverage gaps, so we use multiple metadata providers. And then thereâs TIDAL⌠This creates a pretty unique problem for us, equivalencing different editions of albums for which we have metadata, and identifying your content as accurately as possible. Now bear in mind that for rear cover art to be unobjectionable, we canât serve up incorrect album release / image matches and then have to deal with user complaints that weâve got it wrong; this is a terrible waste of our time and a major distraction from getting work done that really improves the user experience. So we have to get it right.
Finally, having the metadata is only part of the story; weâll need to do some user interface design work to ensure an awesome user experience when we deliver this.
How are we going to get there? In general, we think that we do a pretty darn good job with equivalence; however we recognize that there are some problems and itâs clear to us that our current metadata infrastructure and pipeline could do with some work. Certainly, they were never designed to be able to ingest and equivalence an arbitrary number of metadata sources, as well as finely control the pecking order of these sources for every possible type of metadata (album art, classical composition metadata, reviews, etc.) . So weâre in the process of designing a ânext genâ metadata processing pipeline and service. Weâre taking this opportunity to fix a number of systemic problems, allow the system to grow in various directions, and facilitate new product features (of which rear cover art will actually be quite a trivial one from the metadata perspective). This isnât a small project that can be delivered in a couple of months, but itâs an important one; and it will be worth it.
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Hey @joel, thanks for your detailed answer. I appreciate that the Roon team wants to get it right and that this will take some time. No problem, the important thing is that this is on the roadmap. Keep up the good work, it will make Roon even greater than it already is!
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Thanks @joel. I like the sound of the interface redesign. Donât forget to add the ability to delete images from within Roon and to re-order the images.
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Hi, as far as pdf are concerned, would be great if you could consider a solution like issuu. Allow to go through pdf like in a book without leaving current app. Would add to user experience instead of opening the pdf outside of Roon.
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TuneMap is in the pipeline I see for metadata which could be licensed out to Roon.
https://www.tunesmap.com/this-is-tunesmap/
New York Times had this article on TuneMap
This would be a great resource and save us all time personally moding our Roon where it falls short on Album & Artist info.
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If Roon can license & integrate TuneMap it just may take part of the app to a new level!
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Yeah, saw that one too. Has great potental, they also have a serious team working on it. Works only with sonos and apple tv so far though but it seems to work with allmost all music streaming services out there. Itâs not a player by itself as far as I understand but an add on that delivers metadata content to whatâs being played. Would have liked to play around with the beta version just for fun but I donât have a Sonos nor an Apple TV. Not so sure if they are eager to provide anything to others though, seems more like a competition. They also, like Roon, do not generate any data themselves, they just collect it for you and present it in a way they choose for you. Roon could collect all this data themselves and do with it whatever they feel like is good for you. Maybe they will, maybe they wonât.
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Metadata helps justify the cost of Roon. This is a no-brainer.