New to Roon - avoiding playing surround in shuffle mode

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

Hi Karel. There are a couple of ways, but the cleanest might be to BAN all the Surround albums. Albums that are Banned are not included in large grouped playback. They must be manually selected to play.

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What is the effect in Roon of banning an album?

A banned album or track will never be played as part of a larger unit of playback (artist, radio, “all”, genre, …). You must select it for playback directly in order to hear it. There is no affect on search or other browsing functionality–banning purely relates to playback.