I am an user from Hong Kong. I have abandoned the use of Artist view since the start of using Roon software because Roon will just either translate some of the Artist’s Chinese name to English name itself while some will not. This messed up my overall experience which artists are never sorted properly and looking at the Chinese artists’ English name looks weird.
Library view is what I will only use with. However, with the new Search function now, the Artist view will show up topmost which I never use and now it keeps annoying me…
Normally, I will prefer to use simply the tag I entered to the media file inside so that I can have full control to the artist information.
If Roon team assumes this view design is the best for most users, it is fine, but I hope at the same time kind of customization capabilities can be done on let me skip seeing the Artist view somehow. Or, if someone is in the Artist view, the Search should focus on Artist list itself while if someone is in the Album view, the Search should focus on only Album list. This makes more sense to me.
While I am also not a fan to streaming and radio service which seems this release has improved a lot, I am in the “disappointed” camp as well.