Such a bad analogy.
Did the same people write these demands also to SAP or Oracle? “I have organized my mandates data in paper folders for decades. Why did I have do use your crazy database systems and can not longer use folders. What is so against your clients wishes.” 
From yet another thread on the same cavil -
I get the impression that if the folder construct was, only now, invented by Roon, people would be complaining about having to use folders.
Reason i like ROON because of its search.It becomes hard to find stuff by folders.
I am hoping roon keeps improving search param/tags…
They have stated the position from day one and made it very clear to,people.
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Jeez guys, its not going to happen, deal with it and move on.
Well… I don’t need folder browsing; but I can understand why @Nyquist needs folder access… at least until Roon implement something that means he doesn’t… and I suspect he’s not alone.
@Nyquist @AndyR – this exists since Roon 1.7
you can manipulate your file tags to show up in Roon as Tags.
I finally got a chance to go through the reference you posted and I can simplify my genres, but there does not seem to be a way to map Roon’s genres. They are the ones that I would like to pare down. Did I miss something?
You asked:
So you set “Use genres from Roon’s metadata database” to “No” and you’re done.
That’s how it works – not the other way around.
If you leave the Roon genres active then you have to change (reassign/delete/add) them in Roon (edit album/artist).
If you want to change nesting (sub-genres/top-level genre) got to the genre (genre browser) and edit the genre there according to your wishes.
I struggle to comprehend the need for this at all in all my digital audio days and also video. Even in my LMS days I never used folder browsing. I don’t use it when I use UPnP either and obviously Plex doesn’t at all for Video. I guess Kodi gives you best of both but when I used it again never thought to go looking in folders. I have a nice UI and a search function hich is what I bought Roon for not to mimic my OS. I still have my albums in a artist/album folder structure due to habits with LMS and getting it to work properly but I never ever browse them other to add new files. If you want folder browsing use AudiVarna, JRiver or Asset etc
As long as you are not using Qobuz (or most likely Tidal too) to add tracks to library you should be fine.
Roon does not retrieve track genre from Qobuz during the adding to library process and it will affect the information.
An example for this is for Classical Genre, roon shows the composer information. After adding the tracks to library, without the Classical Genre, we don’t know who these pieces were composed by. Especially difficult when adding an album with multiple composers
Eh, you’re not getting it. The point is I have certainly moved on, but I reserve the right to think a product decision like that is rigid and questionable. If the thread is open, people with opinions on both sides should be able to state theirs.
When all is said and done… All IS said and DONE 
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Doesn’t Settings > General > Show composer credits > Always help here?
Hi @Brianw,
Oh my god thank you for pointing it out. I have set it to Always and now it shows the composer.
I think there is also a Conducted by when the genre is classical, but that is not important to me.
Anyways, here’s the thread where I was asking about the genre passing from Qobuz.
Even JRiver and Audirvana give other views to simplify life
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Which is what I suggested at the end. 
No need for it in Roon.
Couldn’t agree more
I have a lot of ripped CD’s in my library, 50% pop, 50% classical and jazz.
The easiest way for me to scroll through my music to choose what I want to listen, is using the (Windows) folder structure.
Especially with classical music, because I categorised the albums not on album name, but on the composer’s name.
The Roon search app doesn’t satisfy me at that point, because, for example, when I write “Bach”, I get by far not all the music I have in my library, so I can’t find the right album to choose from to play.
That means that I pay 10 dollars per month, without the satisfaction to use Roon as I would like to.
Therefore I will suggest to build in the possibility to browse through the library using the folder method to find my music.
Furthermore the Roon app lookes very nice, is very fast and gives a lot of extra information and such! So it is not only complaining that I do ;>)
Regards,
Peter van Westing
Been asked many times and in #roon:feature-requests you can find it…its not the way roon works so maybe its not the right interface for you. Roon is not for everyone when you are not liking the way the navigation works.