New releases for you - too many classical recommendations

[tahsu]

I have been meaning to ask this for ages. I really like ‘New releases for you’, although I always seem to have way too many classical recommendations. Of the 78 overall recommendations there, 21 are classical. When I look at my overall library, I have 3119 albums of which 30 are deemed as classical, and lots of these are brian eno stuff…

Is there anyway to adjust this, so I see less ‘traditional’ classical?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

If you search the forum for „new releases for you classical“ (without the quotes) you will find many existing threads about this, such at this:

Constantly having Classical albums suggested for me

I have around 2050 albums in my library. Only 10 albums are classical albums out of the 2050 in total but I am constantly being recommended classical albums every single week. For reference I have 900 electronic, 550 pop/rock and the remaining vary between multiple genres. Is there any way to influence the ‘new releases for you’ to actually reflect what I listen to?

[tahsu]

Thanks @Suedkiez for the reply!

I was under the impression I had looked before, but obviously not properly, or perhaps before that thread.

Anyway, I suppose it shows its an issue that is still around bothering some users. I know you can select genre, but given this is supposed to be ‘New releases for you’ you would hope that most would be in some way tailored to you listening habits/library.

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

I don’t know if this will help, since I see mostly relevant releases, but you can sort new releases by relevance.

If this doesn’t work, I recommend that you open a Support ticket. Most discussion about this in in#roon, and Roon staff do not monitor this category.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@tahsu

perhaps before that thread.

There’s, unfortunately, lots of others, too.

There’s also this recent one in Support and it doesn’t inspire confidence:

Roon suggesting too many classical albums despite user's preferences (ref#FXY4NF)

What’s happening? · Other How can we help? · None of the above Other options · I don't like how the product works Describe the issue I have circa 2000 albums in my library. Only 11 of them are labelled as Classical genre. About 8 or 9 of those labels are incorrectly tagged as Classical. Even so every single week I get suggested 90% classical albums. I ban them as soon as they appear but I am relentlessly getting suggested classical albums that I have zero interest in and it is really ruining …

[mjw (Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper. Call that job satisfaction? I don't.)]

If “New Releases for You is not based on your library only”, is correct, then it should simply be called New Releases. And, if this is the situation, wouldn’t we all see the same lists?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Well, „not only“, and some other things are considered in addition. Makes sense to me in principle, I might want to know about some releases that are not necessarily related to my library.

But clearly something is off with the large numbers of classical recommendations for some people who never listen to classical.

And there should be recommendations for all releases by artists in my library.