Valence Art Director in Roon

[goat (J. V.)]

I also pointed this out in this thread

Art Director: logos are not good for avatars

@danny I will clarify my own experience: all the artists where I clicked on ‘improve this photo’ where accidently all single artists. So with every click Art Director told me to NOT upload logos (side note: there were many electronic artist which do have logos as single artist and not as a band - where also the logo might be much more representing than the actual picture) This gave me the impression that logos were not recommended. The reject option: ‘This is not a artist picture’ also drive…

the problem is clearly this:

De gustibus non est disputandum

Art Director: logos are not good for avatars

The problem with this is really simple De gustibus non est disputandum each has his own taste, one prefers logos, the other doesnt i really think Roon needs to reconsider a third metatype for logos so each user can toggle between artist pics or logos this would be so awesome as user experience, and this will stop the logo - picture war in the voting…

and i really think we need a small guideline doc with visual examples

Valence Art Director in Roon

Maybe it’s a good idea to make a guideline doc… I struggle with some things: example when cropping the text says don’t do anything aesthetically at this point, this will be done by rating. Some landscape pics with more people can’t fit in the circle, however when this is thee only image i would prefer a small border above no picture at all… However it’s not possible to know if other images for this artist exist when you are cropping. What should you do: leave the border and let the rejection…