Roon 1.6 Feedback Thread

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Roon really needs to consider the many posts that are of the same nature and accept, rather than rationalize -

The UI changes are piecemeal garbage. I like clean lines and lack of clutter. Dark Mode is wrecked by the new mud-gray footer (I see what you are trying to do by blending colors from the album art; it just looks terrible.) Now Playing gives me a pixellated zoom-in of some band member’s acne instead of album art? How the hell did that get decided?

The Ugly: The overall UI design decisions are pretty poor. There’s a real lack of cohesion. A lot of screen real-estate is wasted but also manages to feel cramped at the same time. An odd double-whammy of crapness.

Disastrous UI in 1.6

What has happened with this iPad app? This now has so much information, panels, scrubbers and it is so busy I can’t believe it. I don’t even know where I am in relation to the overall navigation. Default to scrolling lyrics? Why? The scrubber at the bottom with dynamic range? Why? The forward backward arrows at top have lost all meaning. Why give someone an option do do anything anywhere? This is not music editing software, but library management and it’s become untethered to its mission and h…