Roon 1.8 first impressions

[mdconnelly]

In perusing the vast number of posts in the Roon forums about 1.8, there is certainly a lot of praise, but also a good number of negative comments centered around two areas. One was related to either missing or broken functionality and this was primarily the result of Roon servers getting totally swamped after the release. This now seems to have been resolved.

The other is from those that don't like the look/feel of the new user interface. Some think it's too sparse, others don't like the colors or fonts. Some just don't like change perhaps. Hey, there's no pleasing everyone and, in truth, there's no going back. My guess is the most will come around once they've spent time with it. It is a significant change.

Having spent most of my career in IT, software and database development, I can't say enough about how impressed I am with what Roon has accomplished - particularly in this release. They employ robust agile development methods while leveraging lessons learned from best-on-breed user interface design. Ain't no easy thing.