How to tag a track in an album to not play

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

This was changed in August with the update that brought global banning.

Previously, you could only ban albums that were already in the library, leading to the nonsensical situation that you had to add an album to the library just to ban it.

Global banning lets you ban albums (or tracks, artists…) even if they are not in the library. Therefore, the option had to be moved (because the favorite heart still only applies to albums in the library and so it doesn’t exist for non-library albums).

The release notes explain a bit more:

Roon 2.0.40 and ARC 1.0.56 are live!

Hello Everyone, Ban on the run For years, people have asked why they can’t ban content outside their library – after all, if I never want to hear a particular piece of music ever again, why would it be in my library? We’ve heard the feedback and starting today, you can ban artists, albums, tracks, composers, and compositions without adding them to your library. This allows you to curate your music collections more precisely and free your shelves of unwanted clutter. Roon’s handl…

And here’s the help:

FAQ: Global Bans