Hi, regarding displaying Dynamic Range, is it done automatically or do I have to set it manually. I have changed it to ON in the settings menu but only albums I have downloaded myself seems to get a value. Are there limitations on albums from TIDAL by any chance. Or should change settings elsewhere also.
Regards Martin Kaup
WIN10 Home edition, CHROME browser
DR values are only shown for local albums, not streaming. The documentation says otherwise but either the documentation is wrong or there is a bug.
Hi Suedkiez, thank you for yor reply.
But I find it strange that ROON donât mention that in their techmail.
Thanks again.
Regards Martin
Itâs a mistake somewhere as noted in the linked thread and in the older thread that I linked from there
DR is for you own files not for streaming as Roon cannot analyse streaming content to determine the DR. This has always been the case nothing has changed here. Where is the documentation that implies itâs for streaming as well?
In the Mastery Series:
As reported here:
The help page could do with explicitly stating that DR is NOT shown for streaming albums because the fact that it doesnât make it clear caused some occasional confusion in posts:
I noted this here but nobody bothered to fix Mastery and clarify Help:
Thatâs tenuous really it doesnât say it does, itâs just an assumption, they are grouping all features under versions but they donât apply to all versions. Needs a subtext * to say local only I guess. But I have never interpreted otherwise because I know they canât analyse them as they are protected files, reason they canât cache loads of them and I suspect reading them in the manor required is against t&c with services.
It says that it groups streaming versions under Versions and that this lets you compare DR among other things. Itâs at least misleading. And fact is that repeatedly there are threads (like this current one!) by people confused by this and by the help page not saying that it applies only to local albums. So it should be clarified.
Thatâs because you know your stuff, not everone does. And that Roon canât doesnât mean that the streaming providers canât - after all they provide volume leveling info as well. Itâs not at all clear without a lot of pre-existing knowledge on the userâs part
True, I agree it needs better wording or a subtext. Roons never noted for its adequate documentation. They need to have some QA on this from somebody who knows the product better than the marketing lot.
Closely looking at the screenshots in Roonâs KB article, you can even see that there is no dynamic range info for streaming content, see following excerptâŚ
And when writing a whole article about it, it still wouldnât hurt to write explicitly âNote: this only works for local filesâ. Because one might not look closely at a screenshot and people misunderstand all the time. In particular now with the Mastery article muddying it up even further
Iâm just trying to reduce the polarized narrative, given all available facts.
Nevertheless, Iâd also very much appreciate streaming content dynamic range info, and thatâs why I built my own DR Metering Bridge.
Which is presumably the whole point (if there is any useful one) of the whole âMastery Seriesâ stuff: To acquaint folks who DONâT know how all Roon features work. If weâre all supposed to infer the meaning of these little gems from what we already do know about how all the features work, thenâŚwellâŚSeriously??
I certainly hope someone was denied a 5-star Quarterly Review (or had their Valued Employee Award Etsy giftcard revoked or whatever) over this piece off crummy, misleading copy. Okay, just kidding. But this was annoying; I suspected this was wrong, but I went ahead and spent time poking around to see if some magic had taken placeâŚ
Sorry for the confusion @martin_kaup! We just updated the Mastery Series and our Help Center documentation to clarify that Dynamic Range is only shown for local albums that have been analyzed. Iâve also gone ahead and marked Suedkiezâs reply as the solution for this thread.
Thank you for clarifying the materials!
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