Roon Radio - Thumbs Up / Down Button

[mike (Mike Fass)]

The “thumbs up” and “thumbs down” help us improve Radio’s selections, so you will only get them on content selected by Roon.

The content can come from your local library or not, but you won’t be able to give feedback on content you queued yourself – the thumbs only allow for feedback on tracks that Roon picked.

It’s somewhat confusing ‘the thumbs’ are still there on the Roon Radio screen when you are in local library mode. In that context it’s being used to build a queue, not adjust Roon’s algorithm.

This is correct too – in this case, the feedback isn’t helping tune selections in Valence, it’s more about helping you"pre-approve" a queue, like if you want to line up a bunch of music before your dinner party starts, or the shower use case Brian mentioned here:

Radio Thumbs up/down on *next* track… why?

Those thumbs are to help you build a queue. They let you approve/disapprove of the picks, build a queue that you are 100% confident in, then walk away and take a shower and not worry about being subject to a song that you absolutely hate while you are trapped and soaking wet. There is a detailed discussion of the thumbs and what they mean/how to think about them here: We will probably move away from thumbs iconography on the queue screen in the future. It has actually been in the product wit…