When I first started using Roon, I was really pleased with the way it played things I hadn’t heard in a long time, Over time, specifically the last couple days, it seems like it randomly plays itself into the same corner of my library, no matter what I start the Radio mode with.
I’ve read that radio/random play considers previously played tracks, but I’ve got a feeling it might be too considerate.
Is it my imagination, or do all 32,000 of my local tracks lead back to my 90s punk collection?
Alas Steve this seems to happen to most of us and is well reported here.
I think work is being done on this for the next version but it would be nice to have this confirmed.
SJB
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I agree with Steve. I’m new to Roon. I’m a few days into the free trial. At first I thought that Roon was marvelous. I listen to a lot of classical music, and I was delighted to find that Roon treats the movements of a symphony as part of a single work rather than individual “songs”. I also liked the way that in Radio mode, Roon would find music in my collection that I haven’t heard in a long time, or that I’d forgotten that I owned. But then I realized that I was hearing the Credo by Penderecki for the third time in two days. When I’m listening to popular music, especially something that’s new to me, I’m more willing to hear a good song once or twice a day. But with classical music, once I’ve heard a piece, I want it to go to the “back of the line” so that I don’t hear it again for a long time. I’m afraid that Rune is bumping the usage counter for pieces like the Penderecki Credo, and playing it often because it’s a “frequently played” work. But it was Roon that decided to play it, not me.
Frankly, this issue makes Roon considerably less attractive to me than I originally thought. I’m not sure that I will buy it when the free trial expires. I hope that the Roon development team is working on this.