Roon doesn't remember thumbnails?

[extracampine]

ROCK on Intel NUC (NUC8i7BEH 8559U). Internal 8TB SSD for music storage, internal M.2 SSD for Roon database. One of my remotes is a PC (Intel i5 9600K, GeForce GTX 1080ti, 16GB DDR4, Patriot 500GB SSD), connected to the ROCK via a ethernet cable/Netgear switch/ethernet cable.

I’m noticing that when scrolling through my albums on the PC (in album view), if I scroll at any speed then instead of seeing the album cover thumbnails, I inintially see grey boxes in their place. These will then tend to populate with the proper album thumbnails in around a second, sometimes a bit less (for a page of thumbnails).

This happens even if I have just scrolled over those albums a minute earlier. I thought that the thumbnails would have been generated and I would no longer see the grey boxes? What is going on here?

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

The artwork changed included…

@brian

The way Roon handles images today is essentially the same as how every other app that you use handles images. They are fetched on the fly at view-time and cached in various ways inside of the application to speed up future views. In the backend, we use a content distribution network to globally distribute the images and make sure that load times are fast for everyone. In most cases it works very well and the experience difference is minor. We can work to improve the other cases.

that being said, I believe that work is being done to speed up display based on recent feedback in that same thread.

Artist images very slow to appear

Because it wasn’t a bug, it was a consequence of some re-architecture. We couldn’t roll it back without breaking lots of other stuff, so we had to push forward with a refinement to the new approach. I explained the architectural change in detail higher up in this topic. It’s in QA testing now, and going well. It will be out soon.

[extracampine]

Thanks @Rugby. It’s the album covers though, not the artist images. Maybe it’s part of the same issue. Hopefully they’ll be able to sort it.

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Hi Extacampine, I assumed it was for all images in Roon now. I was getting the same slow issue with album covers as well as, or sometimes, greater than slowness in Artist Avatars.