@chrislayeruk
Hi Chris,
I would have been so happy if Roon had just kept 1.7 but I understand from reading your many posts over several threads on the 1.8 explosion that this is not possible. Fair enough, I accept that. I hope that I am not kicking a dead horse and that my suggestion is different enough to merit consideration. If not, no sweat, I gave it a try.
Would Roon consider a legacy basic Roon separate from the main evolving music serving world? Not 1.7 with the impossible business logistics of maintaining 2 complicated systems, but 1.7 stripped down to require negligible maintenance. Call it Roon Basic that lets me shuffle through my entire library, add music, edit my library and a few more basic features for those slightly less Luddite affected than me. Roon would promise no updates except those absolutely essential to fit in with the evolving tech world. No UI improvements that might be better, but this old dog would have to learn a new trick. I donāt do well with change. No enhanced features that might set the tech world on fire but I wonāt use and would just clutter up my simple use of the system. No upgrade costs to Roon other then the hopefully low cost of providing a simple alternate system for some of the customers. All the techies can go to town on 1.8xxxxxx.
The 1.8 could very well be a huge improvement over 1.7 but I felt devastated that I could no longer shuffle through my entire library. Apparently that is a bug that is going to be fixed but until I actually see the fix I feel very anxious that my 98% use of Roon is up in the air.
The UI changes could very well be improvements that are making most users very happy, but they are no better for me and I have to find the hidden things all over again. Iād rather listen to my music than learn how to control it.
The enhanced features of 1.8 might be fabulous to some/most customers but I will never even look at them and they will irritate me when they get in the way of my simple use.
My ancient PC used to control 1.7 just fine, but the ancient video card wonāt work with 1.8. That is absolutely fair enough and no criticism to Roon as neither HP nor Intel are supporting this card, so I canāt hold Roon to higher expectations. But that old work station still does everything that I need to do there, and it was nice to be able to control my music from it rather than having to get up to go to one of the newer gizmos.
I really loved 1.7 even though I only used 2.6% of itās potential and was delighted to pay my lifetime subscription for that 2.6%.
Of Roonās 100,000 customers I might be the only Luddite, but if there are more than just me, then this would be an great service for us. If Roon can accept the horrible reality that I use their Ferrari just to drive to church on Sundays at 10 mph under the speed limit. But they can show off their brilliance on the continually evolving improving main Roon. Please rather than getting hung up on a few specifics, consider the broad concept.
In anticipation of some replies, I am 70 years old, I still have my slide rule and abacus, but strictly as back up in case of power failure, but I have an Audi TT S Type with the 3.2 and a KTM Adventure 1090R. I was really ā ā ā ā ā ā when my province legislated to impound a vehicle for going over 40 kmph over the speed limit. I dropped my land line in favour of a mobile 22 years ago.
Aloha,
- but you are right, adapt or die as Darwin discovered is etched into our very (musical) DNA. Frankly Iām moving onto solving other audiophile challenges like macallan 18 or Glengoyne 21 this evening!
