Has the banned track flag changed what it does?

Roon Software Discussion
#1

My understanding as per Roon KB and experience is (was)

The “Banned” state means that the item to which it applies (e.g. a track, an album, or a work) will never be included in a queue created by the Radio

Now when I ban a track on an album and (actively) play that album the banned track is not played.

.sjb

#3

Are you saying that you believe that banning a track only applied to Radio?

That has always been my experience. E.g., I ban all Chet Baker tracks in which he attempts to sing. They are not placed on the queue.

I never use Radio, so dunno about that.

#4

Same for me and was always the case when I tried that since using Roon (2.5 years). Since Radio never plays whole albums, I took the description in the help always to mean “everywhere” despite it only mentioning radio

#5

That has always been the behavior. I tried to get Roon to extend the interface to add something that would ban the track just from the Radio but they would not do it. They did add a tag (ROONRADIOBAN set to values 1 or true or yes) that would allow tracks to be banned from the radio but that is just too cumbersome to use in practice.

#6

Thanks guys, memory is playing tricks on me obviously.

.sjb