I use Roon together with my partner, and while we share some musical interests, our tastes differ significantly. Profiles seemed like the ideal way to share some music while keeping our libraries separate where needed.
Initially, I hoped we could use separate Qobuz accounts per profile, but that’s not possible. While this saves us the cost of a Qobuz Duo plan, it also creates challenges in maintaining a distinct library per profile.
A key issue arises in the Recently Added section. It displays all new additions to the entire Roon library, regardless of which profile added them. This makes it difficult for users to quickly find their own recently added music.
I attempted to use the Ban Album function to filter out unwanted albums per profile. While this works within Roon, it does not function in Roon ARC, where all albums remain visible. Since we frequently use Roon ARC (especially in the car), this effectively eliminates any meaningful library separation.
Proposed Solution
Profile-Based Tagging on Additions
When a user adds an album, it should automatically receive an “Added by Profile [X/Y/Z]” tag.
The Recently Added and Recently Played sections should then filter based on this attribute, showing only content added or played by the active profile.
Library Filtering by Profile
The Album and Artist views should include an easy way to filter content by profile.
Albums without an “Added by Profile” tag should always remain visible to all profiles, ensuring shared content is easily accessible.
Consistent Profile Separation Across Roon & Roon ARC
The profile-based filtering should extend to Roon ARC, ensuring a consistent user experience across all devices, including CarPlay/Android Auto.
Additional Suggestions
Optional Profile-Based Recommendations: Users could receive personalized music recommendations based on their listening history without being influenced by other profiles.
Profile-Specific Metadata Options: Custom tags or favorite albums should remain profile-specific, ensuring personal organization remains intact.
Why This Matters
Currently, Roon’s profile system offers minimal separation, making it difficult for multi-user households to manage distinct music preferences effectively. Implementing these improvements would significantly enhance the usability of Roon for shared environments while keeping the core library structure intact.
i just want to push the importance of this:
without any clearer separation and roonArc not beeing able to show only favorite albums in carplay roon is still hardly useable with more than one person, in our usecase
i really need to push this feature request. Without this functions it’s pretty hard to use roon with my partner. Somehow my partner needs to sort his library and filter all the music from me, wich the partner isnt intrested in.
But, there are ways to keep things ‘separate’, even in ARC. There used to be more items separated by profile, like playlists; but, Roon has been removing that. The one item left that IS by profile is TAGS. You can set TAGS to only be viewable by one profile.
So, I’d suggest that you create a TAG call it “Profile_[name]”, assign it to your Partner’s Profile, and add it to every album and artist that your partner wants to see.
Then, even in ARC, you go to albums and click the Tag focus Icon and choose the Profile Tag and only those albums (or artists if you are on that screen) will be shown. Then use Filter, not Search, and it will filter only those tag filtered albums.
IN Roon (not ARC), you can even make it easier. Once that Tag has been created and filtered, create a Bookmark and then use that Bookmark in the future.
I would love to see this feature too. I’m new to Roon and this is a real difficulty. Just having playlists not shared between profiles by default would be enough. Otherwise profiles seem pretty pointless.
Recommendations are by profile, Daily Mixes are by profile, etc. Anything which is “suggested” to you is determined by the profile’s play history (among other things).
that would require that the other profile finds something to play and is not overwhelmed by the stuff from the other profile .
As nothing seems to happen to my suggestions i made at the beginning of this thread , roon stays for my usecase unusable.
Yes, each person should be using their own profile when playing music, if you want recommendations by user.
That is not possible actually. The Play History is tracked by which profile played which track. Music my spouse plays under their profile, is never considered for recommendations to MY profile.
You’ll notice that Daily Recommendations, etc etc, change when you switch between profiles. Assuming, of course, you’ve actually played music under the other profile.
Sadly that was removed. However, in my post directly above your first post. I describe a way to have a dedicated bookmarked playlist view by profile using Tags.
It’s not so much about recommendations.
Everything I add to library will be seen by the other person. It should be possible that each profile has the ability to easily either see his own collection or the whole thing.
That’s where I had to give up.
I wonder why it was removed. I can’t think of a downside for that feature.
For my particular case I have hundreds of Qobuz playlists which it would be a pain to go through and Tag. My partner doesn’t want to contend with all my stuff while trying to find their own.