I know this must have been discussed to death allready in this forum but I’m not such a regular visitor and I don’t read everything. But here it goes.
There has been a lot of request for browsing by folder structure. I know everyone has it’s own systematical way of organizing their music and if a folder structure helps with that that so be it, no arguing about it. I for one have another peculair way of finding music and that is by date of purchase. I know when I purchased something and I arrange my music in folders like that. My database is organized in years of purchase, not in genres, not in artists, albums, release date or whatever but in the date that I purchased it. Thats something I could organize in my previous program MP3Toys (yes I know silly name, but absolutely great program)
I know I can tag albums in Roon but I don’t want to go through my entire databse manually to do this, besides within Roon it is very hard to find out where your music is actually stored, it’s not a one click activity.
What I would like to see is a way to show album collections based on whatever criteria I wish. Not playlists, based on folder structure. I don’t feel the need to browse through a folder structure in an Itunes way in the sidebar. All I would like is a row of buttons that represent my folders wich I can click on and off, lets call it a collection of several libraries. I know this could be done by adding a tag to the albums but that’s sooo much hassle.
In MP3Toys I always worked in this way just by letting the program scan the music collection per folder, not the entire music collection at once. This way the collection showed up in year numbers, again years that I purchased the music, wich has nothing to do with any tag, any relationship to the music whatsoever other then the date that it came in my collection. I’m sorry but my memory just works best that way. I can find any music within seconds this way. In Roon it takes me pretty long some times to find anything when I’m looking for something wich I can’t remember the name of, but I always remember when I bought it. I know it might all sounds strange but I think flexibilty is key in trying to make the best music player out there.
What I also like to see is another behaviour of the overview button. It know shows recently added content firts by default and there is no way to change this behaviour. I would like it to go to the excact point where I left off. Makes a kot more sense to me.
Just tinkering.