Hi guys. I want to do something pretty simply…just have Roon show my genres. From searching the forums it looks like I need to do two things:
Turn off “Show Roon Genres”
Turn on “Show Genres from File Tags”
When I do this 46 genres are listed. The problem is I only have 15 genres. Another problem is that some of my genres are missing. For example, Indie Pop is not listed. I can of course find it if I search for an artist I know is in that genre. That artist however is also listed under a bunch of other genres that I assume Roon has provided.
I thought that if I turn off Show Roon Genres only mine show up??
Thank you Greg. I just ran across that thread talking about Styles. However, that does not explain why genres are missing though in the Genre view. I can see Indie Pop associated with an artist though.
Also, I think it would be good option to turn off reading from Styles or have that be a separate category separate from Genre.
Here is a list of your Genres from your tags on the left. Roon will try and match them to a current Roon Genre. See if you can see Indie Pop on the left and if it’s associated with a Roon Genre.
Maybe add your Style request in Feature Request forum.
Cheers, Greg
Edit: there is a Genre called Indie Pop, so it should show.
Edit2: if you click on the Genre circle, it’s under Pop/Rock > Alternative/Indie Rock
Say you have 100 albums that Roon has identified as “Jazz”, and you have another 5 albums Roon wasn’t able to identify, but which you’ve tagged in the files with the genre Jazz. If you’ve decided to show your tag genres and Roon genres, what should happen?
We could give you two different genres that are both called Jazz (your version and Roon’s) but it’s more accurate to say that these are all the same genre, so anything you tag in your files as Jazz gets access to all the richness of Roon genres (detailed sub genres, top artists and albums, descriptions, etc).
We have some changes coming in this area to make things more comprehensible when Roon genres are turned off, but right now hierarchy (meaning Indie Pop set as a subgenre of Rock/Pop) is preserved even when Roon genres are turned off. You can edit this on the Indie Pop genre page, by going to the Edit screen and setting it to be top level genre.
That’s correct. Mapping is really only designed to let you map your file tags to Roon’s genres, so you can take advantage of that rich metadata.
For example, if you’ve been tagging your files as Alternative for a decade, you might want those all to show up as part of Roon’s Genre Alternative Rock, which again includes a description, sub genres, etc, and will automatically match any new content you add in the genre from TIDAL or your local files, so you don’t have to enter genre tags by hand.