Roon is on a roll lately - Like the Playlist improvements. Good work!
Now if you ONLY would add the ability to move multiple songs at one time when editing playlists!!!
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A folders view was never something I much wanted, but I always felt there was no harm in having it, so well done for providing one now.
What I have wanted for a long time is a better way to edit out errors in Roon like track order which is a nightmare with the current tools. Also a desperate need is to be able to correct groups of tracks that Roon has failed to identify as a composition, or orphan tracks which Roon leaves out of the composition.
Is it possible that the folder view may in future be the vehicle for improved editing of issues such as those? Or is it better to keep such necessary editing distinct?
I’m sure Roon is now seriously looking at these issues anyway, but the new folder view prompted my curiosity.
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I agree. Using folder browsing in Roon made me aware that apparently a number of mp3 albums and compilations from “the early days” had been incorrectly recognized by Roon as stand-alone tracks or mixed with others orphaned tracks - probably due to faulty metadata and since the very first scan of my library years ago.
The good news is that with folder browsing, “select all” and “group tracks” I will finally be able to address and correct such issues directly in Roon now. It’s a bit of maintenance work, of course, but you’re happy to accept that for a clean library, right? And you get the chance of (re-) discovering some long lost gems, which were hidden within your library due to faulty metadata that was misinterpreted by Roon.
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Just tried this folder view and it is very slow, app is not responding. I have i7 12 gen nuc and installed rock
Problem is with main folder with 90.000 tracks.
Found out that this problem is on iphone 15pro, on ipad pro is fast.
Reinstall app didnt solve the problem.
90,000 tracks loose in one folder is likely to slow any filesystem. Can you use something like Yate to folderize the albums?
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Didnt write correct, sorry.
It is main folder with subfolders and total number of tracks is arround 90.00
But it seems that problem is on iphone app
I’m using a 2020 SE, with quite a lot more tracks, and folder browsing is pretty much instantaneous, so there’s definitely something wrong. Are you running short of storage on your phone? Other than that I can’t think of anything that would cause Roon to run slowly.
Just tried folder view on my iPhone 15pro (50K tracks) and it’s pretty much instant responses.
It looks like there may be a local issue, storage possibly?
What I am finding most interesting about Folder Browsing is the user response to this new feature! So many nitpicky complainers! Especially those who want the Folders entry to disappear. What nonsense.
In my case, I found the new feature interesting, though I will find it only rarely useful because I find my Tags do much the same thing. But in any case I can easily and happily ignore the entry “Folders” in the Menu of choices when I don’t want to choose it.
I look forward to future upgrades.
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Pure speculation on my part: isn’t it human nature to strengthen/re-inforce/prolongue/arrogate support for/try to confirm a position once held in one context by referring to it positively in another?
Specifically, aren’t (many of) those Roon users who were behind/supported/approved of/understood RoonLabs’ original (and strongly held) position on FB likely to allude to/re-iterate/cleave to such original positions as ways of confirming their commitment to the Roon ‘project’ in general?
I suspect that if we carried out a poll, two revealing questions might be:
- has you position on FB changed since its implementation?
- can you - regardless - see both sides of the issue; appreciate why both positions are valid?
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I support Roon’s postion, then and now. It’s their product and their company. They will do what’s best and right for the majority of their customers, current and future. Harmon changed their focus which is good, I think.
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Thanks, Marian - Yes, I saw that poll and thread; but because the first two questions were predictive, I felt it unwise to draw any conclusions yet.
Although, Yes, the third question - which has received 128 answers so far - may suggest answers to my first question.
It works fast on my iPad pro, problem is only on iphone.
It may be worth raising a support ticket but you could try the basics first, reboot iphone, reinstall the app, reboot router etc…
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Pardon me, but what is wrong in asking for a feature be deactivatable you do not want in your sidebar? If I could personalize the bar, would also ask for a possibility to remove Tags and History but it does not mean I condemn these options which are appreciated by other users.
Tags and roon´s preferred browsing methods only work once the data is there and assigned to the files/albums. Folder browsing is useful in case this data is missing, information lies solely in folder/file names or the album is not clearly identifiable. Both methods complement each other perfectly.
I thought I would rarely use folder browsing as I had done my tagging homework with most of albums in my collection. Once it was implemented, I found it to be a very useful tool when trying to understand different versions of an album (in folder or file names) or sorting tracks which got lost.
So again, thank you @ roon team especially for integrating this option so seamlessly!
One reason for eliminating a feature from a menu is because of convention. Think of drop down menus on websites. An entry in a drop down menu doesn’t disappear just because it is not often selected.
Another reason is out of sight out of mind. If an available feature is hidden it can be forgotten.
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Can you add the option to show/hide folder browsing on the side bar, as in playlists. Or in this context for any of the other items?
Wow - just wow!
Thanks for this feature. I love Roon, but learning how to use Focus and Tagging effectively required me to learn Roon’s logic. Not saying better or worse, just different from my staid old habits. I often found myself using Windows Explorer to use the file folder structure in the music library to find some missing music or to quickly check whether I had some piece of music. Roon certainly allows me to do that, but I would often get sidetracked reading something or finding another piece of music. This may say more about my propensity for distraction than it does about Roon. Having both means of discovery only deepens Roon’s usefulness.
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You said it 
When I converted to Roon 7 years ago I had to make a major change in how I navigated classical music , I just did it and moved on , each to his own .
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