Just wanted to thank you for all the work in build 521. I have an old MacBook Pro (Retina, mid 2012, Core i7, Intel Graphics 4000) with Catalina. There appears to have been a massive reduction in background GPU usage. It was averaging around 50% with a noticeable reduction in GUI interface speed when running. Now back to normal and no fan noise! Thank you - most wonderful!
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And thatâs a good thing 
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Hi, I wonder why there are no more critical voices about the font size in the iPhone Roon application. Personally, I use the iPhone Xr and I also think it should be a bit bigger. The current size is not comfortable. Fortunately, I still have an iPad to navigate in Roon.
Possibly because most of us with that problem wear glasses, which makes it a non problem in the great scheme of things??
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The âRecommended for youâ section is really great for me. Many of the recommendations found a constant place in my library and for some of the stuff is pretty sure that I probably wouldnât have listened to it without Roon.
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Does Roon work with Spotify now? If no, when will they officially integrate? I have used a complex workaround for a long time. It needs to download Spotify playlists via audfree Spotify Music downloader first and upload the local Spotify songs into iTunes library. Then sync the Spotify tracks from Tunes library to Roon. It takes so much time though it does work.
Roon requires deep integration with streaming services that Spotify currently donât provide. I wouldnât hold your breath, also MP3 is not Hi Fi. We do enjoy full integration bringing high res/MQA and CD with Tidal and Qobuz, with great pricing and offers.
Personally I have no interest in Lo Fi streaming at home, whatâs the point in this day and age?
You may be best talking to Spotify on this issue. This is my personal take and cannot speak for Roon or Spotify
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What do you mean now? First Iâve heard it was ever going to. 
Some general feedback on Roon 1.7âŚ
My main Roon view is the Overview page. Iâm not objecting towards the change into Recent activity, thatâs kinda cool, but;
âShow allâ (in the Recent section on Overview) doesnât really do what it says anymore. It shows a few pages, and the forces me to spend a bunch of clicks to go into the Album view.
On the same view the Roon team manages to confuse, yet againâŚ
I have set my prefs to âShow more pictures and albumsâ but here the thumsnails are bigger?
On the same confusion theme, here we got vertical scrolling? Damned guys, make yer mind up!
All in all, small niggles, but i still feel were heading off into GUI mish mash territory, way further than ever before.
What happened to that âmajor UI overhaulâ that was hinted at a few years back?
Itâs not useless today, but consistency is a must!
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Doesnât the observation that the last two new features added both have vertical scrolling?
Seems to me they have.
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I think this is a by-product of the dynamic building of the image, which uses the given size/resolution/scalling factor of the Roon window to decide how big the thumbnails are going to be. Iâve found that for different starting sizes of the Window, Roon will either show the same size of thumbnails, or different sizes across the various Roon screensâŚ
I donât know, sorry. I was quoting from the release notes. Moderators are just volunteer users, not Roon staff, so I donât have that detail.
Donât you realize that extra back buttons, proliferation of view alls, sub-menus, scrolling confusion, etc etc are actually features? Anything that allows one to get even more lost while using Roon means that you are spending more time with it and therefore getting your moneyâs worth! More mishmash please!
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I have a few Controllers that get regular use; two iPads - one 2018 standard issue (10.5"?) and one 2020 iPad Pro 12.9" and a 13" Mac Book Pro 2017.
It looks the same on each of these, even though they vary a lot in screen resolution. Am i understanding you correctly if the thumbnails do NOT vary in size in some situations?
But⌠When i navigate to the Albums view, we still got paging (horizontal)?
Anyways, the new Recent-views are useful, but they need infinite scrolling⌠I dont want to click/tap all over the place just to browse my library 
Sadly, true. My speculation is the older (original) horizontally scanned pages will be replaced with vertical scroll in future iterations of the UI.
It does complicate the user experience as some (newer) sections of the Overview page scroll vertical and some (older) horizontal. Youâd either have to be incredibly sloppy or strategically economic to roll things out that way.
Call me an optimistâŚ
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Unfortunately you canât find audition aids that transform a small/ average quality audio system into a no-question asked one !
⌠Unfortunately not⌠wouldnât it be great if there were such things!!
For desktop and tablet at least, make it one stuck page, with panel views, that can show in grid or list view, by category or function, sub-tab views in each, but each panel essentially functions the same (of course). All the universal things needed like filters and focus (tools) remain universal. Ability to hide panels if not used. When one searches or filters, the results divide into the panels - albums, artists, genres etc. and dependent on function. You keep active the one that you want to see, but one quick click to any of the others (no hamburger menus except for preferences). One panel could be the Main Library which breaks down with sub-tabs like albums, and artists.
Iâd love to see a smart metadata panel - perhaps a metadata on/off toggle when if itâs on a side panel pops out with a text field where you enter info depending on which album(s), track, etc you have chosen, maybe with an autosave on/off.
Playlists, Bookmarks, Tags. Would like to see everything in one place, and again more of a tool box header approach. Tags should be renamed and rethought of as Collections. Keyboard command add to a target collection that you set. Ability to switch a playlist (or parts of) to a collection and vice versa. Bookmarks rethought of as Notes. Ability to set a note with one click, with or without custom text.
Better sharing options and themes would be nice. More than two sizes of thumbnails. Genres as thumbnails or list view. Qobuz/Tidal havenât fully thought through - each their own panel depending if subscribed - tabs within each of some sort. Ability to customize each panel view would be key.
Anyway, itâs a long shot and Iâm fine with Roon as it is. But I do think it could be a lot more intuitive and easily functioning program and these are a few quick ideas, glommed mostly from using Lightroom.
I thought for a minute you were describing JRiver, oh help me Lord! 
On a more serious note though, i think Lightroom is a far stretch for a comparison. I mean, thats a photographic workflow application, where itâs very purpose is to dabble around. Roon on the other hand, to me, should be quick, easily navigated and pretty, but at the same time informative of the content. (not the underlying logic or tags, or whatever, that need to be taken care of before i even start playing music)
Maybe we should have two views or modes, one for curating your library and one for selection and playback?