E.g. After playing The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem and allowing Roon Radio to continue playing after the last track I have had the following censored tracks come up in my queue:
A Milli by Lil Wayne
Gold Digger by Kanye West
This is very frustrating as I am a firm believer that music should be enjoyed as the artist intended. Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Reading the FAQ on this, it appears to me that the switch only “prefers” the selection but does not “guarantee” that selection. In other words if the switch is “off” you can still have a chance of getting the “clean” version.
I wonder if blocking or banning the “clean” tracks/albums would do it? Is there a focus or tag that could be used to identify them and then ban them? only issue is whether this would effects the playing of the unedited version…???
James_I
(The truth is out there but not necessarily here)
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I think you’d have to have the tracks in your library to “unlike” them. So that seems a little self-defeating.
Yes that is true. I and others have discussed this with Roon and that is the way it is intended to work.
By banning Roon “learns” what you don’t like and is supposed to make choices per the info it learns.
It would be nice to be able to ban artists, tracks, albums, etc with out having the add them first.
Blocking or banning the censored tracks seems like a less than ideal solution and I suspect that the algorithm would interpret that as not liking the track at all and not just because it’s censored.
I don’t want Roon to ever choose censored albums/tracks and the current implementation of the preference option for “Preferring edited Versions” seems half baked. If this option is set to “No” then it seems logical that it should always avoid censored tracks when uncensored options are also available.
In 2024, why do we still not have the ability to disable the playback of “clean” versions of tracks/albums when non edited versions exist?
I NEVER want to hear an edited track, and given that Roon is a product for music enthusiasts, I would have thought that prioritising “Artist intent” would be a higher priority.
The current option of toggling “Prefer edited versions (“Clean”)” to off is insufficient as it only serves to open up the catalogue to ALL versions, rather than specifically excluding “Clean” content. This means that Roon Radio will still play censored tracks.
What we need is an option that functions similar to “When Unedited and Clean versions of an album exist only play: Unedited / Edited”.
As @Marin_Weigel has suggested this is a Feature Suggestion - so I’ve moved it into the Feature Suggestions category for you. Don’t forget to use the Vote button to vote for your own suggestion.
Not a big deal, but one of the songs on a daily mix was the clean version, whereas all other tracks were the original recording. Would be great if there is a way for the system that creates these playlists to have some sort of logic to circumvent this.