Roon 1.7 Feedback Thread

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Do you have TIDAL or Qobuz integrated into your Roon, or is your library only for local files? I suspect, if the latter, that you won’t get any NRFY or recommendations, because they are sourced from the streaming services, and if you’re not using any, you won’t get them.

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aha ok
i use just my local library, not Tidal or Qobuz.
thought roon would search for simmilar things in local library too
thank you for explaining :slight_smile:

Roon Radio will work on just your local library, but NRFY and recommendations need a streaming service to draw results from.

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Thank you.

I have a huge library and can say speed is MUCH faster. Great release and great job

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So you are using the regular Android version of Roon remote on your Fire tab?

What are you on about re bold text?

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Still playing with the new features. But a few things immediately stand out

1. Track numbering

I assume I am in a minority but I switched on track numbering as it is no longer the default. I’m not sure what the pattern is but I think it is Qobuz integration. If I click on a box set I am getting a long unreadable screen dump numbered “disk - track”

1 - 1
1 - 2
1 - 3
1 - 4

2 - 1
2 - 2
2 - 3


6 - 1
6 - 2
6 - 3
etc.

I’ve never understood this “streaming” logic. I don’t play my music a box set at a time and prefer more human size chunks like a disk at a time. If I then click on Disk 1 , Disk 2 etc., that is what I see, a single disk with no disk numbers only track numbers. In 1.6 opening a box would jump straight to Disk 1 so this I find annoying as when I open a box I need to make a second, extra click to get into the 1.6 navigation. There is no box set handling solution in 1.7 (yet again) so this just feels like salt being rubbed into the wounds.

2. Search

There was a longish thread about a search on Chopin, throwing up Schumann, Debussy, Nielsen and many other composer albums as well with no obvious connection anyone could fathom. On my system that is not the case any more if Chopin is the search term. I just get Chopin albums. However, if the search term is Frédéric Chopin then I still get a lot of other composers with no obvious connection. I also tried “Michael Jackson” as that is the example in the release notes and I get Michael Jackson albums. But I also get every conceivable variation of Michael and Jackson and also some mystifying ones. I didn’t know for example that Michael Jackson did a backing vocal on one track from Stevie Wonder’s Hotter than July album (All I Do). I suppose some people are interested in those details but I would have thought for most, although a technically a correct search, it is a baffling result cluttering the screen.

3. Fonts

I suppose the choices were to do with supporting readability on more remotes, smaller smartphones maybe. Personally on a laptop and an iPad I don’t like the changes but then I didn’t like the grey footer in 1.6 either (still don’t). I don’t think there have been just just font changes though, there seems to be layout changes as well. I don’t remember having difficulty figuring out where that track numbers were in 1.6 but I certainly did in 1.7. I exited and rebooted roon several times before I realized where the track numbers were. So difficult to put my finger on it but I don’t find readability improved.

Roles

I haven’t had time to thoroughly check. But initially this all seems much more rational with arranger / librettist etc. clearly displayed and also soloists being “featured”. A really nice step forward. Now, if only the font and layout aesthetics were up to the standards of “classic” roon . . .

Sections

I really like this although I need to play with it. I was a little surprised that the sections are not “live” links like “works”. That probably doesn’t make any sense for Opera but it would be nice for other multi-tiered works like the Vivaldi Seasons.

Qobuz Integration

I have the impression that this is much improved in terms of metadata integration? I found it common in 1.6 that roon would find no metadata at all. Roon seems to find Qobuz metadata in 1.7 much more consistently now but maybe that’s wishful thinking with a few examples and I have to play with it a bit more to be sure.

If Roon is using multiple font weights—versus just regular, italic, and bold—then “fixing” the concerns about overuse of bold text will probably be more challenging.

I personally hadn’t noticed any issues with “bold text” being overused.

Yep, these are not new. It’s tricky to translate “This” into “Ce” or “Cet” or “Cette”. What about Ce(t)(te) ?
Audio is OK, no?

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I’m indifferent so far on the bold text thing, but I would like to propose a moratorium on using bold text in forum posts criticizing the bold text.

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Neither had I noticed it. In fact, I’m totally bemused by the issue. I’m not clear what the fuss is, as I’ve never encountered any issues like this and wouldn’t know where to look for them even now! :sweat_smile:

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Nice radio feature, thanks for good work. 2 suggestions:

  1. Would be nice to have a sorting functionality on hi-rez streams.
  2. SomaFM has two Groove Salad streams. You have listed the « Classic » version only. Most listeners use Groove Salad (not classic) which has higher stream bit rate. Be nice to see it added.
    Thanks again.
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Look forward to reviewing the new features and enhancements in Roon 1.7. I immediately experienced an issue with track numbers missing from the albums. The issue is consistent on the Mac desktop and iOS app.

Checked the track settings and it appears the numbers should be shown.

I guess so. Under Downloads on roonlabs.com, there’s an “Android APK”. Just click on that with the Silk browser to download it, then install it (Android will put up a prompt asking if you want to do that).

There’s an “add a station” thread underway in the new Live Radio part of the forum. I’d drop the suggestions in there.

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