Please don’t change. I own a Bluesound node 2 and have only recently signed up to Roon, previously using the Bluesound app. Last year Bluesound had a method whereby the default behaviour of a click on a track was determined by a separate default options menu (play now, play next, play last). This was fine by me but a number of posters didn’t like it and wanted the non-optional default to be play the track now AND carry on playing the rest of the album - also wiping out any previous queue.
Bluesound thought this a good idea and introduced smartplay, which does exactly that, but with the facility to click on three dots to bring up a sub menu from which you could click again to choose what option (now, next, last) you wanted. Oh dear. Suddenly lots of new posters appeared (including me) stating that they hated smartplay. Arguments on both sides were very similar to the many which appear in this thread, and I won’t bother duplicating them all now, but there were some seriously annoyed people. Even 12 months on, complaints still bubble up.
Bluesound won’t change back and, moreover, considers a separate default options scheme potentially too confusing to many of its users. Their experience was that too many of the users unwittingly got into an option where the app no longer worked as expected (especially with multiple remotes) and complaints ensued.
In the current setup it is clear what is going on and I am always in control. I like that.
You can’t please all of the people all of the time.
Interesting, it doesn’t bother me. I want options. I often stack up a lot of listening so first it’s play now, then I add play next or add to queue as appropriate.
It’s one click to move on to the next track if I choose although I rarely interrupt mid song. It feels wrong when things sound so good.
Sure is a lot quicker than getting CD’s from a shelf or cupboard lol
One click play could be an option for those that want it, for sure
Playing an album is particularly annoying, since you have to click the album, then play, then add-to-queue, when using a pointer going from the bottom of the screen to the top, back to the bottom
It seems like if you leave “ask” as an option, nobody’s forced to change their behavior.
I would like to see a very simple feature that when ‘Play’, or ‘Play album’ was pressed, that music played.
I’m aware of a previous feature request which asked a similar thing. I was the originator of that request. Unfortunately my request got bogged down in a tedious series of arguments about play lists and what have you, completely missing the point. I have no desire to take away any functionality around building play lists, or of denying the button pushers an extra few clicks. I am simply asking that for those of us who have such a preference, could a button, or additional feature, be built in that allows an album to be played with a single click.
I repeat; I have no desire to remove or alter any functionality that those who like to press play multiple times, enjoy.
I agree after using ROON for 30 minutes. I also have JRiver and I am trying to decide if ROON will improve my playback experience. While I don’t expect perfection from any media server software, I am not hesitant about pointing out annoying issues. Multi-click play is such an annoying feature.
I put this in the nice to have but not a deal breaker department…I get frustrated buy it on the odd occasion when I am in a rush and then wonder why nothing played…then have to turn back and press play in the waiting screen…I do think it should be optional by profile.
I’ve gotten used to it now but something like the tidal app does (direct click just plays including following songs, dots give options) would be nice as an option.
…along with the rest of the digital player app universe. Roon is unique in this regard. Even Sonos has ditched their “queue” methodology as the default interaction model (though still available via ‘…’ menu).
Yep for one click play.
Just have the play button next to song titles. And make the album/playlist automatically continue from that point on. If I want to make a queue or radio I make one.
I don’t have time to read all the replies, but I think it is usually not very clever to ‘try to teach people do things in a new way’ especially if the earlier way was not broken in the first place.
Even e-book are flipped page by page. Records, tapes, cd’s, ipods, digital music players have always continued from the song you have chosen as default. And with cd and digital players you have had an OPTION to program a list of different order, queue, playlist, whatnot.
Feels like otherwise pretty nice Roon think they’ve created something ‘new’ by making that option not an option for linear play, but as a default… and the linear play as an option that needs tinkering and selections/many click etc.
There was a company that thought they would ‘teach’ people the ‘right and better’ way to use their devices no matter how un-intuitive their ‘right way’ was.
They were global leader in their game, until a competition created a product with an intuitive interface and they were out of business within years. The first company being Nokia and the intuitive product, you guessed it Apple’s iPhone.
But as everybody want’s to be new Steve Jobs and Apple and ‘revolutionalize’ something, don’t do that just for the sake of being able to say you ‘revolutionalized something’ if there is nothing to revolutionize, just do a great, solid, well designed and intuitive product.
Not all revolutions are good ones and get traction. Only the ones that actually make people’s life better and easier. And company cannot choose which does and force its vision to people. Even Apple has faced that with some of their products…
I get One click play in BluOS and I hate it. It does what it says on the tin and so I am often getting caught out and cutting a song. To play next I have to select the dots and use play next. This is nowhere near as good as Roon and the Pawmasher.
The only place for one click play in Roon is Internet Radio Stations IMHO
I expect people get used to what they are used to.
Compromise; First in the line for a song is a play button that would work as a play button in Tidal/Spotify/iTunes etc. and would play the current album/playlist from there on. Clicking on the name of the song (and it’s area) would work as Roon works now. Everybody happy?