Separate library for talking / comedy?

[Ian_Murphy]

I have a directory of ripped discs featuring talking (mostly standup comedy albums). I’d like to be able to put them on once in a while, but I prefer that they never, ever, ever come on during ‘normal’ listening.

I thought about creating a separate user ID that would have access only to a certain subdirectory, but that doesn’t seem to be how user IDs work.

I was just looking into using ‘banning,’ so to add the subdirectory but ban its contents, then make a smart playlist that only returned banned items, but I don’t think I can ban an entire directory (and banning individual tracks would be arduous).

Anybody have a good workflow for “I never want to hear this except when I want to hear it”? If I came up with a good way of flipping a switch, I’d probably use it for Christmas / holiday music, too.

[Wade_Oram]

The solution I have adopted is to use a TAG - I called mine ‘Exclude’ but you could call yours ‘Standup’ or ‘Comedy’ or anything you want.

I then use a negative filter on that TAG to Exclude the Albums and tracks that I tag with the ‘Exclude’ tag: E.g.:

On the rare occaision I want to listen to this albums, I just invert the ‘Exclude’ Tag filter like:

Once you have created the Tag, simply add this TAG to all ‘albums’ associated with the ripped standup comedy CD’s.

[Ian_Murphy]

That makes sense to me and is a good workaround - except that if I add content next month, I need to remember to apply that tag. (I’m really committed to laziness as a lifestyle.)

Could I automatically apply that tag, or some other universal condition, to content added from a given directory?

[Wade_Oram]

If you add all of your Standup commody albums to a common sub folder (say Standup), then you can go to ‘Folder view’ and Navigate to the parent folder so that the Standup folder is visible. From there you can select it (at least on a Windows client) by using a Right Click. Once there, you can use the ‘…’ menu at the top of the screen to ‘Add to Tag’ from where you can select the appropriate Tag. This will apply the Tag to all albums in the ‘Standup’ folder.

[Mike_O_Neill]

You could look at a Bookmark, they are dynamic, ie they apply a rule say Genre = Standup on opening so are automatically up to date

A tag is Static ie what you chose to put in it so it requires management

It’s how you apply the Genre t make it happen

[Arindal]

@Ian_Murphy

I’d like to be able to put them on once in a while, but I prefer that they never, ever, ever come on during ‘normal’ listening.

I had the same issue with my classical ´back catalogue´, mainly sacred music, opera and classical boxsets which I might want to enable only twice a year but prefer them to being invisible during normal browsing.

My solution: Move them to a separate folder on the harddrive and keep that folder disabled for normal browsing and listening.

If works flawlessly and does not require much of effort to enable/disable these folders. The only ´downside´: You have to be a bit careful when performing a library cleanup in order not to dismiss metadata for the disabled folders.

[Anthony_B (Tony)]

The functionality you need is already implemented:

Disable tracks from Roon Radio [Implemented: Ban the track or create a ROONRADIOBAN tag ]

I love Roon Radio. But it would be great to be able to tag tracks as “do not play in Roon Radio” – e.g., I have releases with partial takes of songs and studio chatter, but I never want Roon Radio to play those tracks.