Roon 1.8

Has the ability to reorder aa playlist disappeared? I did it the old way and it worked once but that was all.  Not even sure how/why the first try worked.

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Has the alphabetical album search function disappeared? Used that a lot to jump around my collection when creating queue playing.

@grannyring @sbank

+1

@david_ten 

Thanks for the feedback!  I’m having a similar experience.

Update works great for me on all devices. 

Had a great listening session last night but I didn't think to attribute the SQ to any Roon improvement; just credited a couple of good recordings that I happened to choose. I'll listen more closely for any perceived improvement from 1.8.

The UX is slick but mostly familiar and intuitive. I need to dive into the new Focus feature some more; it's promising accordingly to a couple of youtube vids I've seen from beta testers. Cheers,
Spencer

Roon has really done something special with this update. Very pleased with it sonically and content wise. 

@allane  The changes in SQ surprised me. I was not expecting any SQ changes. 

Significant (as in most noticeable): More body, weight and impact.

Cleaner / more transparent / more opened up.

An additional ease / flow to the music. 

I need to listen more to get a feel for whether there are aspects lessened.

@yyzsantabarbara 

Interesting!  I have a Raspberry Pi that I have used as a Roon player, I need to update it and give it a go.  Thanks!

@david_ten 

I need to spend more time listening (mainly I have been learning the new interface and features), but I can confirm that there is no loss in sound quality.  I might even lean toward a slightly better sound, but I will not make that claim official until I have more listening time.

What are your thoughts?

@tvad 

It appears that Roon have some server issues, as to be expected for today’s release.  The Roon Community forums were down for most the day.  I think things with 1.8 will get worked out as new bugs are addressed and the servers get back to a normal load.

So far, I’m having a great experience, but I haven’t used all the features, yet.

Please keep me posted as to your progress.  Thank you!

A great new improvement that is likely not considered by most people is the GPU usage on the ROON client. It used to be so bad that I would shut down the client and restart it again whenever I needed to select music (prior to v1.8). 

The Client also did not play nice with NVidia computer graphics drivers. I had to separate my ROON CORE and CLIENT into 2 machines. Which also gave many other advantages.

Today with the new v1.8 the GPU usage is under 10% on my cheapo DELL computer which has 6 monitors attached to it. A big win in my books.

These GPU issues were also a problem on MACs though I do not run it on my MAC anymore.

One issue I had with the upgrade was that I lost RDP connectivity to my ROON CORE computer server. I rebooted that server and will see how it goes. It is working well now.

Any SQ differences?

I updated earlier today. No hiccups with the install.

I have experienced playback problems.

Just updated to 1.8.  I love it! More information to read about on each recording.  I like the look also.   Well done. 

@tvad 

Is your local library and streaming services working?

Did you update your remote devices (iPhones and iPads) before updating your Core?  

First look today.  I like that file formats and bit/sampling rates are now displayed at the top level view.  It's faster to locate the preferred hi-res version of a title.

Updated about two hours ago....everything is looking good, so far.

I have early access to 1.8. It’s really good, and I like it. It’s not earth shattering improvement over the current version, it’s just better. Better looking and better functionality.

I cannot possibly post better stuff than what already posted in major professional reviewer sites like Darko or Michael Lavorgna. Or even in Roon’s own daily emails to current subscribers