Currently, with the release of Roon 1.7 (Build 571), the new Recent Activity shows songs with the Play button on top so you can listen to that song again. When clicking on the Play button, the song plays immediately (regardless of whether another song is playing right now or not). This behavior is confusing and annoying to me because everywhere else, the Play Actions are being used (for Play Now, Add Next, Add to Queue etc.). Could you please update the button so it would show the Play Actions instead of playing the song immediately?
I hope you understand my reasoning and agree. If not, I’d like to hear the reasoning for this method if possible. Thank you in advance for your support.
I see what you mean now. I rarely use those Play buttons. I guess my request was to replace the Play Button with a Play Actions button. I always quickly choose between Add Next and Add To Queue.
Thanks for pointing that out though. It’s less annoying to me now I know I can at least set the default to Add Next
Where do you see the play buttons? I’m missing them. I have to select an album/track to show the play button on top of the screen. Clicking an Item will open the album on my system.
If you play indivudual tracks rather than “most” of an album it should show tracks.
I don’t know what comprises enough if an album play to show up. More than 1 track, less than…
If you play a track it is a track. There is no “rolling it up” into an album logic. In fact, you only need to play 1 second of a track for it to pollute the Recently Played section. Not even long enough for it to make it onto History.
It seems that it depends.
If you select a track and hit “play from here”, it’s an album on the played line immediately.
Or, if you select a track, and hit “play now” that track is added as a track immediately.
… and, having played that track, hitting “add tracks from here”, doesn’t change or add the album, even after tracks have been played.
… but, if you select “play from here” on the same album, the recently played image changes from track to album.
Yes, but in essence you are adding an album (even if you might consider it an exerpt) with “Play from here”. But, yes, the interaction between different play actions and Recently played are different.
But, then again not my issue as I play each track individually, because… I am previewing the songs; I am not listening to the whole song. Which is why I mention the criteria for inclusion in history which requires a minimum playback time to be considered “Played”.
It seems that, with singles (1 track albums) the Play button appears depending on whether you clicked the Play Button on top or on the actual track itself. Am I right about that?
It would make more sense to me if the button would just always appear on singles. Not sure if I should create another topic for this though.
Honestly, I still can’t really get used to this buttons. I’m thinking now that I’d actually prefer if the Play button was removed entirely and have a regular album cover art linking to the album. You could still highlight the song in the Album page to reference the song that was recently played. What do you guys think?
