Roon 1.8

I use both laptop/iphone/ipad so it is not a big deal for me if iOS update is not there.

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Aha, my Windows remote flagged an update for both the Windows remote and the Rock. No Android update available though. As my Windows remote runs on Linux under wine, I am a bit reluctant now

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Roon forum not responsive… :wink:

my ipad/iphone now is updating to 1.8.
Apple in CA is now no longer asleep.

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They developed an offshoot tailored for Elac Discovery Server. It’s a one off and they said they would not do it again. It happened early on its life cycle . I’s very basic compared to full Roon I believe.

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Still asleep in the UK! Should be fine controlling on the Mac Mini.

A bit of genuine excitement here for a change!!!

It’s installing and I’ve got an odd wibbly icon!

Database updating.

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Done!

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Stuck!

Followed by

Ok getting there …

In the meantime I have some bossonova jazz playing and I’m not keen anymore…switched input!

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The vertical scrolling for content is a bit jarring/stuttery at the minute, and that My Albums font is a bit big, maybe my Mac Mini, but should get used to this quite quickly.

Interesting that the Magnard: Orchestral Works above is listed twice - I’d added to Qobuz Favourites (what I do when I want to audition prior to purchase or something is not available in hi-res) and later purchased it, though there’s no resurrection of My Purchased in Qobuz - at least the Naim app has this.

I just tag my Qobuz purchases so I can focus on them easily.

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iOS update live.

Same here (Roon NUC Core)… except my blue bar reached the letter “i” before getting stuck!

iPhone & iPad both updated ok.

There is now a scroll bar on iOs and Android remotes with an Alphabetical character showing up to show where you are. It’s a godsend and makes browsing on phone so much better, plus focus on the phone as well.

One thing I can now say is that Focus is not completely everywhere as first thought and was excited about. It’s only in album and artists view and the classical bits. No general search focus so search is the same as ever. But focus does now work to bring up Qobuz content not in your library when used in the appropriate place. It’s very useful when on discography sections.

Unfortunately Roon radio has not been very good at all so far under 1.8. They need to sort this asap, they are investigating the issues I and others have been having. Shame they didnt hold off to fix it.

There are some odd UI choices that lots of us on beta forum have brought up to so hopefully they address those.

It looks like we might be beta users for ever to, which is a good thing. They need more users to feedback as we find things they never expected.

Google is still asleep but I am taking the plunge now :slight_smile:

… first dowloading the Windows installer just in case and getting a whopping 100 KB/s :slight_smile:

I think I’ve mentioned this in the past but I have a few pruchases when Qobuz screwed up the pricing and some like the Maria Callas collection are a complete pain to download so I haven’t got everything downloaded. None of it is insurmountable but i do enjoy being to automatically see a list of purchases as we can in the Naim app - gives a timeline and also some memories - I’m hoping the 50 purchase bug after which you only got non-functioning placeholder icons is well and truly fixed now (I’m very confident shall we say), this what used to happen:

I think I might leave this till tomorrow morning… :upside_down_face:

You can tag the Qobuz ones not downloaded to as long as it’s in your library.

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Shame album information isn’t embedded and is still a browser page.

Good to know - just not that organised! I like certain things to work automatically, is there some kind of tag for Purchased even if not downloaded - confess I hate fiddling with metadata or anything similar, just want to find albums and play, not too bothered about the metadata to the extent it would annoy me having to edit for correctness, life is too short (and Qobuz are awful with metadata).

When digitising a few LPs I settled on Side A and Side B for recordings - absolutely no desire to use any of multiple audio tools to split into tracks and faff with noise/click/pop software for the vast majority of LPs.