Roon 1.8

Looks gorgeous!
I feel lucky having bought a lifetime subscription when it costed “only” $499.

There is no better library manager when it comes to classical music!!! :star_struck:

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I still consider myself lucky to have bought one at $699 (which turned out as just 590 euros) :slight_smile:
I’m sure you classic listeners must be excited even more, 1.8 looks like a big step for that

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It is indeed mandatory from the user point of view, but it won’t update automatically unless you authorise it.

Sure, but if 1.8 requires changes on the upstream server side, they won’t be running a 1.7-compatible server forever, I suppose.

Of course, but long enough.

Considering the quality of the product, and by extension the quality of the software designers/engineers I very much believe this has been thought through and the 1.7 version will remain usable/compatible for a pretty long time.

It’s my first major Roon update, so I am excited, but my Roon experience says that they will do the right thing :+1:

(So I guess we agree, it will most likely eventually be mandatory, but not immediately)

I know I can’t talk about it fully but with this release I think I’ll finally be able to really discover Classical music.

Do the download now, and save the install software somewhere, just in case you want to rollback to pre 1.8.

Why?? (But yes I also get the feeling that it might hold my hand to discover classical a bit more :slight_smile: )

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In the Beta forum they asked not to talk about it that’s all. I can tell you that musical discovery is phenomenal now if you are into that. For me I just don’t know enough about Classical and would like to discover more about it.

Oh so you are a Roon beta user? I see, and I respect that you adhere to their request. I am excited. I just hope they fixed the artist handling just in time to make the next half of CD ripping (another 600) easier.

I am not completely clueless wrt to classical, but I don’t have a very big interest - but one would need to, in order to properly dive into this huge world. There are things that do interest me, though, but with my superficial attempts I always get lost and then rather listen to some reggae or post-punk :slight_smile: 1.8 might just be what I need

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Good to know!

I hope that Roon 1.8 will finally accept, recognise and consolidate both syntaxes for the COMPOSER tag :

  • Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

AND

  • Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)

which is a long time request…

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Mandatory updates dont follow that from my experience. They go ahead and install and will apply if your restart.

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What I will say is when it does pop up to update in the Roon app make sure you have the new app from the appstore or you won’t be able to use it aftwrwards. Same goes the other way if app is released first don’t update until the server update is available. You can hold.off the update until a reboot so it’s ok to hold off but you will get nag screen all the time until you do.

All the update takes a long time to remake your dB so if you have a large library go make a cup of tea, drink it and come back.

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I’m not sure @Thomas if I knew how to verify I’d try it for you. Classical is a huge genre that I’m interested in exploring. My assumption is they fixed the Composer tag. Searching/filtering has changed that’s for sure. I’m still getting used to the layout as I’ve only been a Beta tester/user for 1 day now. (They let a few extra folks in the beta program who saw the preview videos ).

I can say that no, they have not sorted out different metadata like this for regular music so doubtfuk for classical.

Looks at this version a new base to build and hopefully fix other issues and add features users have been crying out for.

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Be good to share your experiences on the beta forum @marcusman but I don’t know your avatar on there.

But I could be wrong I’m not a huge classical listener and as this version is more geared to that it may well be fixed.