Here’s my use case along with a comparison to Spotify’s functionality:
I’m using the exact same shoegaze artist to start listening to start radio in Roon (using Tidal and my local files on my ROCK server) or the Spotify app. When the album is done radio starts. After a few songs Roon will inevitably start to play the same crappy artist that sounds nothing like the original artist I started Roon Radio with and is absolute garbage screamo pop punk when I’ve been listening to mellow shoegaze. I don’t have that crappy artist in my library (because why would I include something I hate?) and yet I can’t even tell Roon Radio to stop playing them other than skipping them the dozen times Roon forces me to listen to them! I’ve been using Roon less and less these days because of simple functional issues like this that make me grind my teeth when I’m supposed to be relaxing and enjoying music. Meanwhile, Spotify has continued to play music that isn’t in my library and is actually in the same genre. I really don’t understand why this functionality hasn’t been improved yet when the Spotify app is crap otherwise compared to Roon.
Discovering new music is wonderful, but not having to skip tracks you know you don’t like makes it that much better. Having a “no play” list would make Roon Radio incredible. It is often frustrating to have to scramble to open the app to skip a song when I would’ve just blocked the artist in the first place. It’s half of the value of Roon Radio. Please add it.
Please please please. I use Roon radio more than any other feature and if I have to sprint to my phone to skip a Joni Mitchell song one more time I am going to lose my mind.
Really hoping for a ban feature that works. Roon Radio continues to play tracks by artists I’ve banned. The problem is especially noticeable for collaborations (the banned artist collaborated with an artist who isn’t banned, and those tracks show up repeatedly).
Also, some artists have just a few tracks I never want to hear, so a ban track feature would be great.
I’m giving another vote to this feature request. In only 2 months with Roon, I find using Roon radio to discover new music to be rather frustrating without this possibility.
Just a simple option on Roon Radio, to “Do not play this artist again” and “Do not play this track again” , would make Roon so much more interesting to use.
Tidal has it nicely done, and I hope this comes soon to Roon as well.
It doesn’t seem like this would be too difficult to implement. Could we get some feedback from Roon @support on why this feature is not included or being developed?
