I’m generally happy with the new look and feel. I do have some concerns that I’ll comment on when I’ve had more time with it. But isn’t anyone else experiencing tremendous latency on search and other basic functions that hit Roons back end servers? I’m assuming it just that all of us are playing with the new toy and this hitting the servers hard. Almost unusable for now. Hopefully better tomorrow
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In previous versions of Roon, we only had the ‘boolean OR’ function, and we were requesting to have ALSO the boolean AND funtion.
With release 1.8 we finally got our AND function. Unfortunately Roon forgot the word ALSO, sine now we have lost the OR function completely.
This is indeed quite a disaster for (some of) my Bookmarks.
Even more so, as i do not have a clue on how to solve this ( using newly defined tags and bookmarks.
I definetely want the OR function back, on top of or besides the new AND.
UPDATE: It can be done with tags, by reversing the tags but it trying to workaround things again. Working but neither efficient nor nice/simple.
OR function : Tag A + Tag B results in TAG A+B
To get this you can do NOT( NOT Tag A & NOT Tab B)
Dirk
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This. Gotta bring this back!
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Just updated ROCK to 1.8 on my new NUC8i5BEH. No issues at all. Great new look. Looking forward to diving in further.
Surprised no-one has mentioned Live Radio. It seems borked to me. For all the stations saved in the My Live Radio section I’m now told the station no longer exists.
The Live Radio section contains recently played stations but I get the same message as above, and searches don’t seem to bring up radio stations at all.
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It wasn’t scrolling. It was fixed.
But we are talking about dumb and dumber here.
For me personally for 2 to about 10 disks the previous version though not ideal was acceptable. Once it was past that it started to become unusable unless you had a photographic memory. 1.8 actually makes it worse as the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater for small box-sets. For larger ones you still need a photographic memory but now you also need precise mouse motor skills instead of a click or a tap. The only reason I can imagine for this clumsy change was to accommodate all the other clumsy UI changes.
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On the big picture, this release fixes a lot of the UI issues bugging 1.7 and earlier. Thats really great! 
On a detail level, there are still a lot of quirks, odd behaviours and bugs that need ironing out. But overall, a very nice release.
iPhone not showing up as an endpoint (besides crashing frequently) iPad Airplay 2 does show up as an endpoint.
At first glance a lot of my pet gripes have been dealt with. Search still throws up a lot of superfluous stuff but - again at first glance - seems to return more pertinent information.
That focus now not only seems to work properly but is fully integrated is a definite improvement.
Roon radio still seems to keep fishing in a very small pond. Will come back to that after the weekend but this still seem to be a badly implemented feature.
For the moment I’m relatively pleasantly surprised.
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If you are mentioning Artist page I can confirm. Most is loading ++30 sec or throw an error
I’ve only tried a few things in focus but I am nor seeing this. Just an OR. So I am a bit puzzled?
Just try to choose several tags.
@Ratbert - Thanks for that, appreciated. Unfortunately my IOS 1.8 app is now unuseable with my 1.7 core and I’m very hesitant to upgrade the core given what I am reading here. But I’ll certainly keep note of this if I do at a later stage.
If you or anyone else could post a full-window screenshot of the Mac app in dark mode i’d be grateful
The Recordings feature needs work.
When looking up a composition, all recording of the composition (across local storage and linked streaming accounts) are shown. This breaks with compositions that have many recordings (example: Bizet’s Carmen). It looks like something is timing out.
At first, upon arriving at the Composition screen, I get four gray squares where album artwork should be. Soon after, a message is displayed saying “Recordings unavailable, check local storage, internet connection…”.
This would be a useful feature if implemented correctly.
EDIT to add: There doesn’t appear to be a way of refreshing or retrying when that happens. Killing the app (iPad) and restarting it makes it try to find recordings again. Depending on the composition, this will sometimes work and sometimes fail again.
The most important feature is now missing!!
On the right there were similar albums so I could explore new music based on what I am hearing. The discover function was never really helpful, it mostly just shows the music I have already heard, and it still seems to be like that. (and “discover” is now harder to discover…)
Besides that the new presentation is nice
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I am seeing latency too - I’m glad to hear that it’s not just me.
I rebooted my ROCK but still some latency.
I hope this is temporary.