Now that Roon has finally added a way to ban artists/albums/tracks we just never want to hear, what will be the subject of your first banning?
Mine
Artist: The Doors
Album: Footloose the Soundtrack
Track: “Drive” by The Cars
Share yours in a reply.
Happy banning!
Boston, Bad Company, and Creed.
Swift and other elevator music
There are artists I like and artists I prefer not to listen to, but I wouldn’t want to name the ones I don’t like because they might be someone else’s favourites. Music is subjective and as such it is personal to the listener. This is a useful feature, but not something that needs a “hate” list!
I completely agree. It is rather puerile to suggest banning particular artists that someone does not like. I think those that want to do this should not post such posts on this forum. [moderated]
As @vova mentions in the latest release notes.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Albums in my library, local or Qobuz are such that I’d not want to ban them. Don’t like, don’t add.
I’m more interested in knowing the number of users who asked for this feature and subsequent “improvement” of it, to warrant Roon’s development time.
Like folders, playlist improver and now an improved ban feature; all pointless to me. Features that aren’t used. To me these aren’t improvements, they’re new features. Ones I don’t want, but cannot avoid.
I would like Roon to focus their time and efforts on known issues.
Roon could run polls on new features, to gauge an overall impression of what the users want.
I do not understand this feature.
If I do not like an artist, why do I buy his music? If it is in my library why do I have to ban it? Simply delete it!
I am still waiting for a possibilty to ban complete genres. Will start with banning
Rap
Hiphop
I guess this is meant for people who use features like roon Radio and have roon connected to Tidal or Qobuz.
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I assume it’s to prevent Roon Radio picking artists that you have banned…
For music discovery in Roon this is a big step in the righ direction. It will hopefully adress some of the issues/complains raised related to Roon Radio. Up until this release i have not used Roon Radio nor the Daily Mixes since they both has presented music that i have banned (in library) - now i am back and can not wait to try this out.
Keep up the Good Work Roon - Thanks !
As one who voted for this feature some time ago, I welcome it. My desire for it was specifically related to Roon radio and NRFY. After clicking through music I have already decided on multiple prior occasions I do not like it seems reasonable to me to request that it not come up again.
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Another one who sees this is a pointless feature. Roon has a skip button. If all we heard is music we like or wanted to we would never develop our tastes or discover new stuff and all would be boring. It’s called radio for a reason and I don’t remember you being able to ban stuff on it when listening to the real radio. They did ban stuff themselves of course for other reasons.
Hi @Geoff_Coupe
Then a feature to “avoid artists” within Roon Radio makes more sense 
An outright ban of an artist, would this cause a ban of any contribution from that artist with another artist?
Don’t like a genre, then it’s unlikely you will add artists in these genres.
For Roon Radio, surely it learns what we like and should not deviate too far from that. Someone who listens predominantly to rock/blues shouldn’t expect Roon Radio to throw in something like rap/hip-hop . IDK as I’m not a huge Roon Radio user.
But this is where improvements to Roon can/could be made. More granular preference settings to cater to individuals. Prefer not ban
I completely agree with your point about library content. I can understand that this may be a useful feature for artists/albums/tracks outside of one’s library, but not for library versions.
In my case I only use Roon with local library so it’s a rather incongruous innovation. I know that, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter. It’s just odd to see “Ban this album” in a drop down menu for an album that I’ve purchased!!!
I purchased two Baby Metal albums. Is Roon trying to tell me something 
Not Roon, just everybody else 
I’m going to start the ‘Ban the Ban button campaign’
Or at least hide it, as well as the folders button 
I can understand that it makes sense if you have a streaming service. I suppose that I’m a minority user as I’m local only.