I wonder what’s the idea behind Roon’s ‘Genre for you’ recommendations shown on the app’s start page, and how they are determined…
This is what I have been listening to for the last 12 months:
And that is what I see on the start page:
It’s not that I really ever use these genre recommendations, but the offered choice nevertheless seems a bit odd to me… Maybe Roon’s algorithms want to tell me ‘enough already of classical, there’s other stuff out there’…
@nathan responded on another thread to this point, and I understand this is how it is designed to work: offer genres in increasing play weight…
But let’s get into a little more detail; out of >3500 total hours played, this is what accounts for Art Rock and Prog-Rock:
I don’t know how exactly the weighing is done, if exclusively weighing the played hours, or if other factors are taken into account… But maybe there should be some minimum threshold, below of which played genres should not be offered as recommendation…
And this looks more like it, offering sub-genres of classical, even though ‘Chamber Music’ is doubled:
Yep - this list was previously essentially unordered, I added some order to it but first went the wrong way. Now it’s properly ordered respecting your play history.
The order isn’t absolute so that you’ll see some variety there. Hopefully it’ll be more representative now.
Huh. Now the genres are wrong for me. It is overweighted to Classical. Just a few hours before I got much more representative and interesting non-Classical recommendations.
My long-term listening is only about 30% Classical.
I don’t use the genre recommendations but it does seem to effect
the recommendations that I am getting elsewhere in new releases and daily mixes that I do use.
This is the placebo effect. The result from the genres for you calculation isn’t used as an input into other recommendations 
I’ll look into your balance, however.
Ok. Good to know.
Alright - I made another small change that should make it look a bit better. Note that the actual results are not entirely deterministic at the moment so just keep an eye on it and you should see some reasonable variety there.
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