I knew I shouldn’t have gotten involved in this. No one said it’s beyond their ability. I simply said it’s not as easy as people think. Suggesting they should get out of the business is as non-productive as suggesting you should abandon Roon and look elsewhere for your music enjoyment.
For most users I’ve no hesitation recommending LMS + Squeezelite + iPeng or the Android equivalent.
For those wanting more metadata integration I recommend Plex. Pointless buying Roon if all you want to do is browse album covers and press play.
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This is all I was asking for, some substance behind your posts. It brings up some good points.
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I even agree with quite a few of them, especially the first point.
I will even add:
- Still no vertical scrolling
- No AppleTV Display app
Now I will get back to my blind adulation.
How Roon, do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
And so on…
And let me guess, all the points I raised were revelations you’d not seen umpteen times before on this very forum.
There aren’t many (if any) bugs on that list - it’s a wish-list.
A bug is where something isn’t doing what it was supposed to do. Your list seems to be a of things that you wish Roon did, or did better. Those aren’t bugs or issues they are misguided expectations.
There’s a few things on that list I’d quite like to see implemented too, but that shouldn’t be confused with bugs that could be “fixed”.
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Did I say that particular list was a bug list? I mentioned two bugs therein.
All you’ve done throughout this post is mention bugs!
So what bugs aren’t getting fixed?
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Well, bugs don’t get fixed. Thats a fact. Unless it’s a dealbreaker bug like that Tidal favourites stuff, it just doesnt get fixed.
- Roon eating Mac CPU? Not fixed since a year.
- Imgur sharing? Not fixed since a year
- Track credits on playlist inconsistencies? Not fixed since 5 years
Just three out of douzends.
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Hi I’ve tried both of those options, in fact I tried way more than those over a year and personally Roon is still my favourite. I could spend time listing it all out, pros and cons, etc, but I think it’s better just to listen to music and vote with my wallet.
I have to admit I feel a bit worried. Seems resources got reduced and reply to bugs left alone fixes are delayed.
So no idea if they finally address the UI/UX relaunch anytime soon or keep postponing it.
They have been adding people, not reducing.
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Well, they were looking for people - no confirmation they increase headcount. Don’t know either what happened due to Corona etc.
For example still got no feedback from support about not usable iPhone X remote app (keeps crashing all the time).
At least the volume control is accessible without having to find a tiny icon on the bottom that has to be clicked to access the volume control. Show a new user Sonos. They can figure out the interface in seconds. Give them roon they can’t figure out anything , least of all how to adjust volume!
The volume control in Roon simply emulates the Windows standard. Is that good or bad? I don’t know, I guess it depends on how you feel about Windows.
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This is what’s coming in the redesigned UI.
JK!
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I’m sure this has been posted before, but talking of the next volume control for Roon…
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IMO the worst part is lack of a universal filter and/or focus. When I open Roon, I want to be able to immediately find something no matter where I left off. I love Roon for what it does, but like the OP said it’s becoming more and more a frustrating maze of add ons, back buttons, buried menus and sub menus, and ‘view alls.’ I’m a lifer, and I just bought a Roon only opticalRendu, so no huffy I’m going elsewhere fits for me, but I just wish it was more user friendly.
Very clever.