Hello fellow Roonies
I’m curious to see how people choose what they decide to listen to.
In my case I tend to listen to curated playlists from others, find a track I like and then listen to that said artists album. I then usually end up down a rabbit hole going from here to there. Crossing multiple genres along the way.
With so much choice of fantastic musical artistry I do sometimes find it a chore to decide and rely on you guys in several of the music threads. Thank you.
I often put my collection into most played then scroll to the bottom so I don’t miss anything.
Simple idea and not one I had thought of doing 
Me in a nutshell….
Whatever suits my mood at the time.
Sometimes it may be a particular type of music, or a particular track or album I’m thinking of I’d like to hear. Sometimes in a single listening session I may be all over the place, lol. Sometimes I’ll scroll through new releases on Qobuz, or follow interesting looking links in Roon to see what I find. Sometimes there are just too many choices! 
I have an unbelievably convoluted system for listening to albums.
The main advantage is that I never have to stare at my collection and wonder what I’m in the mood for. I just play the next thing on my list and if it made me want to listen to it again, I raise the rating. If not, I lower the rating.
I also like that it’s super scalable (3,500+ albums now) and keeps me exposed to my entire collection without burning out on favorites. More highly rated albums get played more frequently (but not TOO frequently). Less liked albums are played less frequently.
I also have systems for adding new albums and culling out the most disliked albums but this could turn into a very, very long description that I’m certain would make everyone question my sanity even more than they already do.
I tend to go through genre phases. At the moment it’s hip-hop and contemporary R&B. I’m a local library person, but use Qobuz to hunt out things to buy (downloads, 2nd hand CDs and occasional new CDs).
I do find the “Discover” feature of Roon useful if I can’t decide what to listen to. It provides a sort of scattershot of my library.
I have lots of opinions on music and a quite clear idea of what interests me, and I follow that path, which takes me from one artist to the next.
And it just led me here
.sjb
Often, I will “flit” hither and yon. I’ll play a piece, then maybe go to the composer’s body of work for another selection, or perhaps the artists’ portfolios who played it. Then I might read the bio info, which often has interesting text about collaborators or other albums. Sometimes with classical works I’ll listen to other pieces with the same form (e.g. sonata) or the same time period.
In other words, I just follow my nose. The “proces” (if you can call it that) is not organized at all, and I’m sure I miss a lot. But the journey is quite enjoyable to me.
I do almost the same thing but by reversing the sort order to avoid scrolling. 
A digital pin 
I really don’t know , I just meander, first decision is Classical or non Classical, then usually an Artist . Then Roon’s Magic clicks in , I follow hyperlinks until I settle.
Unlike picking a CD where you had to get up and go get, Digital now makes flitting a bit too easy.
Currently it’s 461 Ocean Boulevard because I was looking for a specific album I couldn’t remember, so I sorted Albums A-Z , numbers on top.
There is no logic, just so much good stuff to go at.
Classical, I tend to pick a Composer and follow works eg meandering Bach Keyboard works , flitting piano to harpsichord
I start often with blind scrolling/choosing in my local library and use afterwards the connections shown by Roon. Musicians, composer, etc.
This gives me new ideas of bands & artists, but follows the chosen genre/style in some way.
I like to live on the edge
I set up a focus on tracks not played which I bookmarked. Then I play them on shuffle. When I go through the whole library, I reset the playcount and start over. I’ve added so many albums over the past few years that I haven’t had to reset the playcount in a long time. There’s always something new to listen to.
Nice thread, tones of good ideas.
For the moment I only use tidal with no local music. Lately I tend to listen about 95% classical. So it goes like this:
I select one of my favorite artist and use Roon radio to see what’s comming up
Several sources of inspiration… Roughly in order
Please tell me where and how to get this Extension for my Roon library. Thank you in advance…
I had a look into this and either didn’t look hard enough or was too tired. I didn’t see how.
@Sloop_John_B could you share detailed info?
Thanks in advance
