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Roon 1.8
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6th gen iPad. No problems as a remote, but playback on the device, as I surf the inter webs, has been stop/start.
you may need to reset your wifi station.Ok, I take it back. The iOS app is insufferably buggy. Playback just cuts out every few songs
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Worth a shot. Thanks.
watchnerd
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See my later posts - they have ballsed some of the functionality up- shuffle especially.
Mulder
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I have a NUC-Rock and iOS devices. After the upgrade it has become very slow. So far the interface appears to be more confusing. I have mostly been listening to classical music so far, but my first impression is that the new interface is no improvement. But I have to use it for a while first. Until then any definitive judgment would not be fair. However, in the artist view, and in other views to, when there are no photos in the icons, it is grey with just letters in it. This happens with less famous artist or albums, especially when the artists are from the non English speaking world. I think this is VERY ugly. It is not new to 1.8 however. but it have become worse in 1.8 since 1.8 are an upgrade of the visual design rather than functionality. The greyed out icons trashes in my opinion the whole appearance. This is pure cosmetic, I know, but most other software like for example Jriver builds icons from covers in the actual music-file while ROON collects them from the internet.
watchnerd
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I never shuffle play, so didn't run into that.
I haven't run across anything I use that is broken, yet...
But we'll see.
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Update to my broken shuffle feature https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/roon-1-8.20248/post-667193
Some bright spark on the Roon community forum suggested tagging all my library with a "Shuffle" Tag- then shuffling the "Shuffle" tag in playback. Works a treat- though it shouldn't have been meddled with in the first place!
Some bright spark on the Roon community forum suggested tagging all my library with a "Shuffle" Tag- then shuffling the "Shuffle" tag in playback. Works a treat- though it shouldn't have been meddled with in the first place!
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Update to my dropouts; Seems likely my issue had to do with my Bluetooth ’phones (don’t judge!). O/w works as before for my use cases. Still exploring the updated connections and whatnot.
Just for curiosity: does Roon have an album shuffle mode (play random albums, but whole and in order)? A quick search on their forum shows https://community.roonlabs.com/t/id-like-for-roon-to-choose-albums-randomly/23134
Quite pathetic for a paid player if it doesn't.
Quite pathetic for a paid player if it doesn't.
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I dont believe so and never seen anything in the functionality to suggest it. Regardless if 1.7 had it, they would have broken it in 1.8 
It might be interesting to do that though. If you commit to listening in full to each!
It might be interesting to do that though. If you commit to listening in full to each!
For a lot of genres, that's just the way it's meant to be listened to. I'm really surprised, to be honest.
I have been using Roon since 2017... Local library with 9000 tracks. 1.8 has removed Library management functionality which , to me at least, is important: We can no longer see which playlist a track belongs to. This was really imporant for me as I use playlists / tags and bookmarks to manage my library. Adding a track to playlist works but there is now no way of knowing which playlist a track belongs to. Moving a track from one playlist to another is now impossible. I can see a few unhappy posts about this in the Roon forum.
I was actually hoping / expecting for more library management functionality. Quite surprised to see it removed.
I was actually hoping / expecting for more library management functionality. Quite surprised to see it removed.
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They do seem to have removed as much as they have added, if not more. I suspect all these features made it more RAM/ CPU intensive and they may be streamlining. Bad idea!
Mulder
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I do not think they have cleared the interface. On the contrary. It is more bloated than before. Now the interface is completely smeared with "recommendations" lengthwise and crosswise. I want a simple interface that I can design myself to some extent. If you could opt out of all recommendations, it would have been one thing, but now ROON seems to be on its way to becoming another program where the user is no longer the customer but the product.
