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]
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.
Nickelback
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.
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!!!
Not Roon, just everybody else 
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.
That’s a problem in my case as i like and own a lot of classic RnB stuff so the algorithm seemingly defined ‘deviating not too far’ to tracks which were really annoying me.
It’s not overly dramatic, though, and i currently dont have Qobuz subscriptions.
Already used it… my library got a little out of control by accident and pulled stuff from folders into my main… long story short, Oasis. I’m plagued by that band and despise it for many reasons. I was
People complaining about naming bands… I couldn’t get through life, let alone be on the internet, being that thin skinned that someone disliking a band that much that I like would be an insult. If we all liked the same thing, life would be boring.
Bruce Springsteen, REO Speedwagon…DENIED!
OP here… the intent of this post was not meant as a means for others to express “hate”. Simply saying I’ll ban this artist/album/track should not be seen as hate. Often I’m just so tired of hearing an artist/album/track that I want to put it on the shelf for a while and not have it shoved down my throat constantly. There are times where it is actual dislike. I felt it could be a cathartic exercise to have others discuss how they’d use the new feature, I’m glad to see many have.