Just as one of many, many examples have a look at this:
Composition: 24 Preludes for piano Op. 28 by Chopin. I get a few pianists lsited as “Top Performers”. They are totally “at random”. No idea who considered those as “Top performers”.
I also get a trumpet player !!! Now thats great. Never heard these preludes being performed on a trumpet. Do you need more examples? Could you pls fix this or just put this “feature” on hold until it really works. Many Thanks.
Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti includes a version of Prelude No. 20 as the album’s first track. Seems like the algorithm might be off to filter that to a top performer, but neat from a data/discoverability standpoint
This is the result for Chopin as a composer - Discography - most popular
At no 5 - a trumpeter!
And Roon claimed in their 1.8 marketing emails that Valence:
“Next, it considers your listening history before filtering for the results that are most popular, but only among listeners who are experts in that genre.”
It seems that there are a lot of “easy listening” and “top 50” compilations and crossover albums that get listened to a lot. And that’s driving the results.
For Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro: The 2nd performer listed as Top Performer - plays the fortepiano on 5 tracks in one performance of the opera in the entire Qobuz catalog.
Yep, and thats the reason why this whole Valance crap will never work until someone actially filters all the Spam albums cluttering the search results for compositions. I said so after 1.7. They dont listen.
As that is unrealistic, Roon should just turn off that nonsense allrogether and focus on more important things.
I am 74 years old and I claim to have some knowledge of so-called classical music. By subscribing to ROON for life, I unknowingly gave up my free will to commercial algorithmic decisions for the greater number . I pity the youth that will follow me.
it is now almost two months ago that I reported the problem of meaningless “Top Performers” being picked by Roon’s “Intelligence” system.
Nothing has changed here since. @dylan, Could I kindly ask to have an update as to where this issue stands? The example listed above is just a case-in-point for a huge list of similar nonsense. If you need more , please let me know.
As other users have said, the simplest solution would be to just have a kill switch for this and similar kind of well-meaning “suggestions”.
We appreciate the feedback here, everyone! I just wanted to confirm that this is being tracked and all of the examples provided have been extremely helpful. Thanks!