Well this has been one I’ve been sitting on for a while.
I love roon, like many of us here, but I feel like my demographic isn’t appreciated. When I look at my stats I always have a laugh because of course I have thousands of hours listening to one genre of music: Electronic
I’m a drum and bass head. I love everything dnb. And seeing that when Iisten to melodic liquid dnb it is classed the same as listening to vomitstep makes me think: “yeah, they go together”
Now I’m not saying there needs to be accomodation for every new genre and subgerne that comes out but it would be nice to be able to be able to have better classification.
I’d love to be able to look for a Neurofunk playlist for example.
Can’t you add your own genres?
(I don’t know, because I never use any of the edit features)
I’m listening to the new Jamie XX and Floating Points - what genres are they, out of interest?
Roon´s genre classification is AFAIK a standardized one sourced from Tivo/Xperi. Its top-level classification was never meant to represent a specific taste or any type of similarity between the subgenres, it is rather a tool to categorize music from marketing, licensing and metadata point of view. Genres which used to have their own billboard charts or alike in the old days are more likely to have a very narrow definition of a top-level genres, like Blues and Folk.
There are several top-level genres suffering from some kind of heterogeneity problem, may it be Classical, Stage&Screen, International or Electronic. Some have useful subgenres (like Pop/Rock and RnB), others have not.
The question is how important it is and what is the consequence for you? Are you referring solely to the statistics how many hours you have listened to a certain genre (which I personally would not really care for), or are you having problems with roon radio classification or suggestions?
You can edit genres at will, the question is if it is changing anything for roon except the possibility to set focus filters. I would also like to filter for Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic instead of just ´Classical´, but as there is no reasonable metadata base for that I´d rather skip it.
Neurofunk? Never heard of it but it is symptomatic of the issue with genres. They are a very broad brush classification tool until they get very niche and that is when the arguments start about what is and isn’t Neurofunk. Many bands are cross genre too so I personally just ignore genres mainly. As a result of your post I Googled Neurofunk and as expected landed on a forum thread where people just argued/discussed what is and isn’t ‘true’ Neurofunk.
Definitely it can be hard to get concrete sub genre classifications. But for example spotify at least tries
Not to say that something the same would be perfect, but like the features roon already includes to improve photos by uploading and voting it could be community driven.