Roon 1.8


I am excited about Roon 1.8 (due out tomorrow).  Roon has changed the way I discover and listen to music.  The new 1.8 UI looks amazing.

Has anyone been able to get early access to 1.8?  Please post new features and recommendations.  I’m eager to learn all the new tricks.
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Just updated to 1.8.  I love it! More information to read about on each recording.  I like the look also.   Well done. 
Any SQ differences?

I updated earlier today. No hiccups with the install.

I have experienced playback problems.
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.
@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!