I found the Rating function in the focus section of the new v1.6. It seems to work fine. I think we can close this thread.
Thanks to the Roon team for having listening to users feedback.
Isnāt that only for Albums, though (and that has always been there since version 1.0)? Thereās no Focus for track ratingsā¦
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You are right, the focus is still on albumsā¦ this thread is to remain open.
Roon, can you listen to usersā feedback? 
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Yes, they do - why do you think otherwise?
Hey, havenāt you see the emoticon? I am pretty sure they are listening to Users and then give priority to feedbacks that seems of interest. My message is Ā“justā a call too put this function on top of the list.
I can understand that Roon is reluctant to let people EXPORT tags in oder not to lose customers (which would be not very kind though), but in order to win new customers they should let people IMPORT their personal file tags. We need at least one, better 5 or 10 Roon CUSTOM TAGS which can be pointers to any of the file tags shown in the file info. So the files remain unchanged, but we could save the value of our collections, at least our track ratings.
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I have been on this soapbox for 2+ years. Roon should inter-operate where it can, and allowing usage of embedded tags is a big part of that.
On point. Exactly. There were multiple discussions of this but no developments from Roon yet.
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Is there any news on this topic?
Iām currently setting up my roon enviroment and this was something I was missing too.
I exported a playlist for my 5 stars rated songs in MediaMonkey.
Maybe I have to use the āFocus-Tag-X Star Rating- Workaroundā like described aboveā¦
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Hi ROON team.
Please include this functionality to the coming version.
This is an old request.
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I canāt imagine it would be that much effort for Roon to accommodate - add a track rating field to the database, include it in Roonās focus capability allowing users to enter a range that translates to >= x and <= y.
Add support for importing track ratings from a tag. Users can use a tagger to rename or copy a tag to the tag name that Roon chooses to use.
Cāmon guys, how many years must users wait for basic capability that enhances the utility they derive from Roon?
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It does seem like the first thing youād do when creating a music manager.
I have to say that I agree with @evand on this one. I know that this forum is full of feature requests, but it strikes me that this one offers a tremendous improvement to Roonās functionality for what I suspect is something relatively easy to implement. Do any other feature requests offer this kind of ābang for your buckā? Indeed, if you look at my post way back in February '18, I managed to utilise the Album Artist metadata field to kind of āhackā individual track ratings into Roon. This was easy to do. Of course a fully supported implementation would be more complex, but I suspect the basic building blocks are there already.
It is also worth noting that JRiver have been making big noises recently about iTunes being phased out, and sending out emails advertising JRIverās iTunes integration and the new features such as iTunes playlist import. OK, I know that Roon already supports iTunes playlist import, but if those playlists rely on individual track ratings then Roon can never offer any kind of transition from iTunes, only that it can work in tandem with iTunes. JRiver does support individual track ratings. So in terms of sweeping up potential customers moving away from iTunes, JRiver has the advantage.
I also note that this thread has been running since August 2015, over four years now. In this time there has not been one single post from the Roon team. I got told off for suggesting that this topic is being ignored, and that the āRoon team read all feature requestsā. Sorry, but it has to be said, from the perspective of a Roon subscriber, zero comment in four years is ignoring a topic.
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Not that being the OP gives me any special authority here, but thought Iād update. Iāve been using Roon quite happily since 2015 without that feature. I donāt feel particularly ignored by the developers. I donāt think that 90 posts in a thread about a feature is an indicator of overwhelming support or demand. Iām not a developer, I have no idea how hard or easy this would be to implement. I do know that Roon - as is - gives me more than enough tools to slice and dice my library in more ways than Iāll ever have time to experience. tl;dr-would be glad to see it happen, managing just fine without it.
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Totally but I think we get used to our work arounds and forget to think about the potentially weāre missing. Like how good would it be to have a global radio button that just starts playing from your whole collection but preferences song selection based on track ratings - most tracks are high stars, some low stars but then 2 out of 10 tracks are no stars and havenāt been played in >6months. The benefit being mostly good tracks but a few that need discovery. I have heaps of tracks iāve never heard because i bought an album for 1 song. And the mix could be adjustable depending on how adventurous you were feeling.
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Wishful thinking. Roon radio is like a city cab - you donāt get to pick the journey, only the pickup point.
I have just started looking at the new features in Roon 1.7. I notice there is now a āROONTRACKTAGā feature. Just thinking aloud here, is there any way to utililise the ROONTRACKTAG feature to invoke individual track ratings in some way?
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It should work and with the right tagger it may even be possible to automate this somehow (copying from existing rating tags to ROONTRACKTAG).
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Can i ask how you used star symbols in the tag name??!!
Bumpā¦This request is super old and this should have been added by now. This is ridiculous
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