Also with regard to AUDIO ANALYSIS, after my system analysed all 66,293 tracks, it started all over again. Not sure why that is?
Some people may not be aware (I was not until told by a fellow user) that you can control how many CPU cores ROON is able to access for the analysis which is great, so I assigned all 16 cores of my computer to the task to speed things up, but while it does indeed use all 16 cores, it does NOT use them at full capacity, instead it seems to be about 50%. Why not the whole hog?
Some impressive improvements â I particularly like the increased capability of the DSP engine. Iâm less happy, however, about the changes to the Internet Radio view. Having only three stations per row (it used to be five) means a lot more vertical scrolling. Could we go back to the old view, please, or alternatively make it customizable? Also, what happened to the convenient Website hotlink on each station tile? I had this set to the playlist URL for each station; but it no longer appears on each tile even though the applicable URL is still listed on the Edit view.
Enjoying 1.3 right now. One item, an embedded W10 tablet device needed Roon reinstalled to update initially but everything runs smoothly and I am now upsampling everything to DSD 128, at around 25-30% CPU occupation, on a NUC 5i5 passively cooled. I had previously chosen not to use HQPlayer despite its charms, opting instead for the simplicity of a single player. Now I have the best of both worlds! Once ROCK is out I can compare it to my W10 install and decide which I prefer, then I can relax and enjoy the music!
Steve, for these DSD albums that are missing track 1, can you add a disc number tag to the track files? Suggest discnumber =1 if they are all single disc albums.
Agreed, it does not require the process to start over. What it does is recalculate the number of remaining files.
It took quite some time for my QNAP to go throug the 60k tracks, particularly as it was set to Throttle initially!
I set it to use 2cores after that and it took about 30hours.
It seems to do DSF, but not DFFâŚwhich are the problem files for me. Also, the problem file that Roon is not adding to my library plays fine in Korg Audiogate, so the files are fine.
Perhaps we should make one, post Dannyâs note, and lock it - you know, before the inevitable happens!
Fantastic release! My setup updated from 1.2 to 1.3 without issue, music was playing again within about a minute!
Theyâve covered a huge amount of ground here - lots more âtoysâ in this one too.
Looking forward to learning from others about DSP/convolution, as well as wondering how theyâll follow this for the next big one.
Itâs also worth taking the time to think about how small a team Roon is, versus what theyâve achieved. Unless we have something thatâs really broken, we should perhaps just enjoy 1.3 for a bit before posting all our future desires, so that they can get some sleep, go on holiday, have some time to listen to their own music⌠at least before they start on v1.4
I am wondering if there were any improvements made to the Radio function in 1.3? More specifically, the ability to query the Tidal database for similar music and not just that contained in my library. I have looked all over and have not found any âtogglesâ related to turning this feature on. I do realize that the Tidal database is very large and the task could be very resource dependent, especially when Roon would be asked to potentially match genres not even tagged in the Tidal database. Yes, this was a feature request, but I really wish someone from Roon would chime in and confirm this is just too difficult, not high enough on the list or will have some flavor of this function in the future. Maybe all the MQA hype and ability to find Masters in the Tidal database will help this along.
