Introducing Roon 1.8 - COMING SOON

[Puma Cat]

That is how I always heard that it works, and how it works for me. It is the actual playback engine, what is actually playing the digital files and therefore should interact directly with them. Roon organizes the files, searched out the files, shows the meta data, and tells HQPlayer what to play, but HQPlayer actually plays them. Hopefully that makes sense and does not make it more confusing.

Thanks, Randy. It makes sense from a high-level functional overview, but what I need to figure out is how to actually configure what software, what way, to get it to work. I've looked at Audiophile Style and some other places for a protocol, but have not found any clear, step-by-step protocol, other than the one for Sonore's Rendu products, which don't apply in my case. Cheers.

 

[nicoff]

Yesterday, Roon released an update to fix several of the issues that users complained about. I just updated my core and my devices.

Here is a list of the fixes/improvements (per Roon Labs):

Improvements and Bug Fixes for Build 763:
Fixed missing audio zones in some conditions
Add/Remove Tag functionality restored
Playlist and Tag links available on Album screen (enable on Settings > General)
Shuffle playback in browsers selects from your entire library
New “Customize Album Display” options:
Star rating
MQA badge
Album display settings now used across the app including TIDAL, Qobuz, Genre pages, etc
‘Export’ option restored to Playlists when applicable
Focus: fixed some cases where ‘View More’ wouldn’t be shown
Updated treatment of ‘In library’ button on Search results
Bigger “hit areas” for touch:
Queue button in footer
Scrollbars on iOS
Playlist item drag handles
Now Playing:
Fixed spacing and layout of Star rating and streaming services badges
Removed UI artifact when Now Playing is empty on mobile
Album screen includes clearer treatment when navigating to “focused” track list from Credits tab
Fixed icon alignment for tracks on many screens
Fixed overlapping scrollbars in some dialogs
Fixed failure to load content after clicking link in reviews and bios
Fixed crash opening artist browser when malformed unicode is present
Fixed a bug where different ‘Member of’ links would redirect to the same person
Fixed absence of hamburger menu on large-format tablets
Updated treatment for tags on Composition screen
Fixed issue with multiple external source controls on Volume popup
What’s Next
We’re still reading everyone’s feedback and looking forward to releasing additional changes over the next few weeks, including options to display larger text, and expanding Focus to support powerful, customizable filtering including AND/OR options.

Once these changes are implemented, any bookmarks that predate Roon 1.8 should work as they did before, so thanks for everyone’s patience on this!"

 

[Kuoppis]

I found the version before the fix quite slow. Now it seems to be normal again.


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[MRJAZZ]

Does Roon still recommend that one updates their Smart Devices that control Roon first, than the Core?

 

[nicoff]

Does Roon still recommend that one updates their Smart Devices that control Roon first, than the Core?

Never heard of that and I have never had any problems. This update, occurred simultaneously with just one click.

 

[mep]

I installed 1.8 on my iPad and Nucleus+ on Monday. The update went super fast. I haven’t warmed up to the new GUI yet as I really liked the previous version. As for SQ, it certainly didn’t take a step backward. I think any SQ improvements are more subtle than they are big improvements. I’m hedging on the SQ changes a bit because I need to spend more time listening to get a good handle on the changes I’m hearing with 1.8.

 

[nicoff]

I installed 1.8 on my iPad and Nucleus+ on Monday. The update went super fast. I haven’t warmed up to the new GUI yet as I really liked the previous version. As for SQ, it certainly didn’t take a step backward. I think any SQ improvements are more subtle than they are big improvements. I’m hedging on the SQ changes a bit because I need to spend more time listening to get a good handle on the changes I’m hearing with 1.8.

If you updated two days ago, you do not have the latest version which just came out today! The latest version as of today is "build 764".

 

[mep]

If you updated two days ago, you do not have the latest version which just came out today! The latest version as of today is "build 764".

I received a Roon notification for a new update yesterday.

 

[bernardl]

For those who may not know, there is a major issue with Roon 1.8 running on some flavors of Linux (probably relying on ZFS), such as my Mojo Audio DejaVu Evo.

The issue prevents access to the local music library and makes music replay impossible for those not using a NAS/streaming.

Roon has reproduced the issue but has been unable to fix it after an incredibly long month. I and other perpetual license owners have been extremely disappointed by the way Roon has been handling this issue.