Roon 1.8

The colours are defined in an editable text file. It’s well buried, and will likely be overwritten by the next update, so you would have to repeat the exercise. I’m hoping Roon adopt Baby Blue for the next update! :wink:

I see on the roon forum someone is already working on a naim theme :wink:
Thread with method has been moved to tinkering section

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Some people do not like changes, some do.

I recall that when Naim forum GUI was changed, there were some vocal protests, things like lots of empty spaces, fonts, fonts sizes, navigation, and so on.

It’s a fine line between too much wasted space and cluttered so you get info overload.

Yes, indeed. You have to get the balance right or provide some customisation facilities.

Here’s my final (for now). Not much to do about the blank space (this is on a 27" NEC) but at least bit more soothing on the eyes and consistent across screens (for some reason they had a different background color for classical and non-classical albums?)

This is all in the ‘package contents’. Just need to know which colors to change and what to (handy chart on line). There’s a thread on it at the Roon forum under the tinkering section.

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Just save the file and replace when the update comes out.

Yes. Having first checked that they’ve not changed the structure… :wink:

Yes, of course. Also keep in mind, I’m only doing this with my remote devices on my Macs, and not the ROCK core itself (not possible). I always have backups in different places of the database as well - just good practice.

Aye. I’m going to select dark mode on the iPad and see if it grows on me. If I can’t live with dark or light I’ll have to steal my wife’s laptop and install Baby Blue…

I think my biggest issue with Roon 1.8 is not how it looks but rather what it has done to my recommendations (New Releases for You). Did they just flush out your play/like history and start fresh because my recommended new releases of the last few weeks have all disappeared and that section contains literally nothing I can enjoy. I mean, nothing at all. None of the suggestions seem to be related to what I have played or added to my library and they are not the same as the historical ones there in 1.7. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes, I have switched to dark mode on the iPad… and last night it was growing on me… the new meta data and links was interesting when I was listening through ‘60s compilations.

Think I would agree with you in this.
Alternatively maybe there is simply a dearth of new releases at the moment!

I have gone into Qobuz directly but was also struggling to find anything interesting, maybe I’d just had too much screen time yesterday…

I think they are merely following a naff trend of using circular icons - I think Apple may have started it years ago with their iMessages/Messages app - hate it. Then they added all those grey circles with initials for contacts without an associated photo, making it look as though you were pals with people you weren’t - I don’t want to see a grey icon with MG for My GP or PW for PC World emails and so forth.

It later appearaed in iTunes for artists, on AppleTV for cast members of media shows.

Maybe someone else did it first but it’s all over the place, in Teams, Microsoft Office products, Amazon Prime etc - I really dislike it.

Another bugbear of mine is Amazon video devices - got several of the first Echo Shows and unless they’ve improved the software you had to import all your contacts - why the hell would I want a tradesman in my contacts list to be able to call me on video for example, I don’t! Let me select who to allow access to MY devices.

Are there graphical glitches with artwork? Suspect this has been mentioned if so.

I’m assuming some cover art is not entirely square and they are showing the full image not cropping it to the shorter side resolution, either that or a downscaling glitch:

Images don’t look as clear as they used to - compression artefact or scaling issue again?

Looks the same in the Qobuz app, so might just be showing what they get.

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The original Magnard artwork is 3200 x 3174 and shows without white space, so I assume Roon is cropping it sensibly to avoid ‘whitespace’ in scaled down previews - as you say may well be Qobuz resources.

Where did those selection circles appear from!!! Never chose that option and took a few minutes to figure out how to get rid of them.

I have always had these white lines on some albums in 1.7, changed the art where it bothered me. (I don’t see a difference now, but cannot rule it out either)

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So I visited the Roon forum and it is unfortunately unbearable for me. Am now appreciating the Naim forum even more. There are of course many good users who have described and summarized the real issues, so I trust the developers can work with this.

But there are far too many hysterical people who fail to even accurately describe their problem and/or whine about things that are not even true, as one can easily see by exploring something for a minute before posting an epic rant.

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Well curation/recommendations might be a bit flakey, here’s a recommendation while playing a Disney Soundtrack:

I don’t know this but am probably lucky it didn’t start in Roon Radio while we were enjoying a late family breakfast!