Unfortunately, that (and pitch correction) is the industry standard, even with very talented artists. 
Abba…already “informally” banned in my listening space for decades. And who knows, maybe The Carpenters, too 
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James Blunt. I never could understand how he could played on Roon Radio after I had been listening to Indie music
this doesn’t apply across my 2nd location/installation. Still a pain to have to maintain 2 libraries…
Is there a way to see what artists/songs I have banned?
I might want to give them a second chance, or just make sure that I haven’t banned something by mistake.
Use Focus > Banned (in library) in the Artist browser and in the Track browser…
For bans outside your library, I don’t think Roon will give you a list itself - you’ll have to make that list. All the Help article on banning says is:
To unban content outside your library, search for the specific content you banned and click “Unban this” from the context menu.
I create a tag named “BANNED” and apply it at the same time that I ban something, so I can find it in the future. But it makes the whole banning proccess more cumbersome
But presumably Tags only apply to Library content, so it seems redundant, since Focus will already find all banned content in the Library?
Right! I see now that the tag is unnecessary. Yet I won’t be able to find albums/songs/artists banned outside library
Exactly, that’s why you will have to make your own list for non-Library items - jotted down in a notebook, or in Excel, or OneNote or…
Roon really should maintain that list…
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One for the Feature Suggestion category, I think…
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Bruce Springsteen. I will leave a pub if his racket is playing…
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I wanted to check this before replying, but the answer is yes – for a track – if the banned artist is an album artist or track main performer (typically primary artist, featured artist, and soloist track credit roles).
Say, for example, you ban B.B. King (can’t imagine why): U2’s “When Love Comes to Town” should not be played.
Similarly, my ban of Neil Young (love his songs; don’t like his voice) would ban some CSNY tracks, but not most of them, because CSNY is an artist entity in its own right and we don’t consider band membership. Ban John Lennon and you won’t ban The Beatles, and vice versa.
All subject to the metadata of course.
cc: @nathan
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Hugely appreciated @joel 
While I see some benefits of this feature, I just won’t personally use it.
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I wish I could ban Opera.
Because Roon Radio algorithms are pants. I just got GoGo Penguin dropped in session that was primarily late 60’s 70’s folk rock!!! This is my own music so I would not want to ban anything.
Not sure what James Blunt has to do with your music
As a big (prospective) user of Roon Radio via TIDAL and Qobuz, I have been begging for this feature for years. Without this, Roon Radio simply has never been able to “learn” what I like and don’t like, and I had to resort to manual playlists, which actually inhibited discovery.
This is literally the 100% most important feature request I have had. Thank you so much to the Roon team!
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OP here. I so get it. It’s so annoying after you’ve used Roon for 1000s hours and you still get tracks suggested that you always skip within seconds. Banning things I don’t want to hear means I don’t have to have my finger on the next track button.
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