Roon 1.8 (Build 880) is Live!

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Valence Art Director in Roon

The latest Roon release talks about Art Director as a way of fixing up artist photos in Roon, and I’d like to expand on that. We’ve been testing this internally for a while now, and a small number of you (a few hundred) have already been using Art Director as well. I wrote this post for those early users, but I’d like to share this with you all now that this stuff is out the door for all to use. Getting high-quality (and highly accurate) photographs of artists has been a challenge for everyone…

Valence Formula

With the release of Art Director, we’ve added an “info page” at https://valence.roonlabs.com. Here, you’ll see a page with a reasonable explanation of the types of things Valence does and how Roon + Valence is different than any other player out there. I know it’s not quite “the formula”, but it’s the best overview we’ve written up to date. If you have questions or want us to add more detail to this page, let us know!

Overhauled Search in Roon

Hey all, I wanted to fill you all in on what’s been happening with search, and we have done in this release to make things better, and a little bit of what we have planned for the future. Before I get started, one piece of background: we feel strongly that it’s best for the product to present a single, clear answer to a search query that blends both library and streaming content without putting them into separate “silos” as some other products do. This allows Roon to give a single set of answer…