Also YES to these ideas:
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Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down affecting your personal preferences and having an immediate effect on the current radio queue. See: Rdio and Spotify, circa 2012.
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Sonic Analysis similar to Plex. Genre is not enough.
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Ability to use multiple artists or tracks as seeds for a radio. e.g. make a station that’s a mix of music similar to Madonna + Led Zeppelin + John Coltrane + Daft Punk. Or Punk + Synthpop + Bluegrass genres. Why not?
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Get rid of Valence. It clearly has problems. As I outlined in this post, Roon seems to have a very good idea about the relationship between artists and tracks in my library (I guess this is the Focus part?), but from what I can tell the Radio is blind to all of it.
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Fix the repetitiveness. I know it’s common for users to say “How hard can it be?” but a good start would be as simple as “When artist XYZ appears in the radio, don’t put artist XYZ in the queue for the next 50 songs”. Also use better fuzzy matching so that Album Title ABC and Album Title ABC (Remastered) are seen as the same thing. Also fix the thing where if an artist has 10 albums in their discography for some reason the radio frequently plays tracks from only 1 of those 10 albums, even when all of the albums are well-regarded and have hit songs.
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Spend some time digging through my thread from November 2020 which detailed a lot of these issues, from many other users, with copious amounts of data (including a spreadsheet) and also included many suggestions for improvements. Based on what I’ve read in the replies above in this current thread, it seems like most of the same problems still exist. I would love to come back to Roon, but not if the radio (my most used feature) is still broken.