The first change we’ve made affects Live Radio playback. When the station you’re listening to provides Artist and Track Title information, Roon will look up this information and link directly to the album when we’ve found a match.
The matching is handled by the same cloud services that power Search in Roon. While this won’t work for every track, the matches should make it significantly easier to add content to your library as you listen to your favorite stations.
You will find the links on the Now Playing screen. How is this feature working for you ?
As set out above, you won’t see links unless the station publishes the Album/Track information in the stream. I understand FLAC streams don’t do that and some stations just broadcast the name of the show.
Am I right in thinking you don’t have a streaming service activated ?
My guess is that the search is conducted against streaming service databases rather than a user’s library. Identifying music we already have might be useful in a large enough library.
Yes that might bee it then. No music renting here.
Somehow I must have missed that statement from Roon Labs but they already have a history to hide relevant information and restrictions from the users in the Release Notes.
Perhaps because not all tracks are identified. Nevertheless expanding history in this way could be a useful addition.
Please consider making a feature request.
Off topic, but I think History needs an overhaul. I find it frustrating that it’s not searchable/filterable for one thing. At the moment, it’s of very little utility.