# Users' Greatest Roon Tips **URL:** \ **Category:** Roon Software Discussion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2023, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283 "2023-11-04T14:12:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/64 "2024-05-03T12:14:54Z")
Here’s an incredibly informative piece of information about tag sorting, courtesy a question from @Olivier_Lengwiler and an answer from @Suedkiez: > [@Tag sorting and Tags and/or function](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tag-sorting-and-tags-and-or-function/272424/3): > > As far I can tell in my library: tagged Albums by artist name and if tags have mixed content, the albums are followed by: tagged artists by artist name other tags Yes, it is alway additive. There are open feature suggestions for this. Specifically tags: And more generally: ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/65 "2024-05-15T00:08:31Z")
Here’s another cool tip I’ve implemented recently: Apart from this tip, about albums never played: > [@Users' Greatest Roon Tips](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/16): > > Here’s a cool filter for “Full Albums Never Played” - (Well never played in Roon, that is smiley) …here’s a related tip that gets you prompt attention to music you haven’t heard in a while (or at all): 1. Create a focus on albums “NOT” Played in the last year AND sort by “Most played” in _ascending_ fashion. 2. Save it as a bookmark called “Long Time No Hear” and use this to explore the stuff you haven’t heard in a while. ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/66 "2024-08-16T18:15:42Z")
Adding this succinct tip from @Marin_Weigel to show how to swap left & right channels: > [@Swap L/R channels](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/swap-l-r-channels/279992/4): > > Sure you can! See screen shot, and just combine that with whatever DSP you wish to use concurrently, then save as new preset which you can even activate via a mobile remote. ---
**Author:** ![s73nm](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/s73nm/32/246268_2.png) [@s73nm](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/s73nm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 7:22am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/67 "2024-10-19T07:22:04Z")
> [@Michael\_Harris](#): > > There does not seem to be a perfect solution to this issue, I keep an unplayed bookmark for streaming and local albums and it is useful but not perfect. I would seem that the introduction of the SPL’s now does offer a solution. Building on the knowledge that tags are “inherited” from a playlist to the track, I was wondering if an album would pick up tags from individual tracks. And the good news is: it does! This allowed me to do the following: 1. Create a track SPL with focus on reversed last played “All Time”. 2. Create a tag called “Unplayed” 3. Add the tag to the SPL. This will result the unplayed tracks in picking up the tag. 4. Navigate to My Albums and focus on the “Unplayed” tag. You now have a list of albums for which at least 1 track has never been played. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Harris](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/michael_harris/32/208975_2.png) [@Michael\_Harris](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Michael_Harris)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/68 "2024-10-19T09:34:56Z")
I am not currently testing out SPL as I am spending more time using LMS, but this sounds like a really good use case. It replaces something I do very manually. ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 11:14am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/69 "2024-10-19T11:14:24Z")
Correct. I just converted my “Full Albums Never Played” bookmark to a SPL the other day as a matter of fact, to achieve this very same thing. It’s the only SPL I have right now because all of my _other_ PL needs have to be met by Synology DS Audio and are imported to Roon as .m3u playlists, as they all rely on track dates, which Roon still does not support… ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/71 "2024-11-15T17:53:42Z")
Late to the game, I just encountered this wonderfully informative thread, and thought it was worth adding to this thread (I hadn’t known it was possible for us to add our own synchronized lyrics to our own songs): > [@Lyrics Tag Guide](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/lyrics-tag-guide/85182): > > Adding Lyrics to a Song Roon has the ability to display lyrics which are in an embedded file tag. The tag is called LYRICS and is used for both static and syncronized lyrics. The field should be populated with text only and the lines separated by returns. This has been an often requested feature and will allow users to add their own lyrics to music which Roon currently does not provide the lyrics. The field and it’s contents can be added by any Tag Editor of choice. I am going to run through a… ---
**Author:** ![Suedkiez](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/suedkiez/32/107321_2.png) [@Suedkiez](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Suedkiez)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/72 "2024-11-15T18:02:12Z")
> [@DDPS](#): > > I hadn’t known it was possible for us to add our own synchronized lyrics to our own songs There is one downside: If the song has synchronized lyrics in Roon metadata and they are wrong, you MUST use synchronized lyrics to override them. Regular lyrics won’t have an effect. Just sayin’ before someone tears out their hair. (Feature suggestion: [Override Roon-supplied lyrics with user-supplied lyrics regardless of type](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/override-roon-supplied-lyrics-with-user-supplied-lyrics-regardless-of-type/190058)) ---
**Author:** ![WillK](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/willk/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@WillK](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/WillK)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/73 "2024-11-15T19:04:44Z")
Yup. I’m still on 1.8. Roon’s refusal to budge on this is one of the reasons why. ---
**Author:** ![Florianthenewolduser](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/florianthenewolduser/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Florianthenewolduser](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Florianthenewolduser)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/74 "2026-03-02T12:29:13Z")
Most Users will most likely already know this, but I didn’t until yesterday: I imported some Albums with front & back cover. I could view them in the Album Art viewer but was unable to set the covers in the Album Editor. I tried many things until I found the solution: When you are in the Album Art viewer you can click on the image info Link and then on Set as album cover. Again most Users will already know this, but since I took so long to find it, I thought it is worth a mention here. ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2026, 1:31am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/75 "2026-05-04T01:31:29Z")
Here’s a clever way to get a list of “deep tracks”: > [@The Best Way To Listen To Deep Cuts In My Library](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/the-best-way-to-listen-to-deep-cuts-in-my-library/319578/2): > > I’m more of an album person myself so I haven’t played with playlists much. You might have tried this before, but maybe creating and smart playlist of tracks not played in the past year (or whatever timeframe) and not picks. I notice that this usually leaves out Stairway to Heaven blush Also, I’m curious about the settings you mentioned to get metadata from the song filenames. I’m not sure which settings you mean. ---
**Author:** ![DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ddps/32/162722_2.png) [@DDPS](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/DDPS)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2026, 12:38am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283/76 "2026-08-09T00:38:10Z")
A new piece of great information that I learned today: > [@Regarding "Periods" Classification for Classical Composers](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/regarding-periods-classification-for-classical-composers/323570/3): > > If you go to “My Compositions” instead of “My Composers” you will see what is going on. Mostly this is due to the large number of Bach transcriptions and arrangements by classical, romantic and contemporary composers (literally everyone from Mozart, Beethoven, Busoni, Villa-Lobos, Walton etc.). Roon is not very consistent how it attributes different composition roles and sub roles, such as transcription, arranger, orchestrator etc. If an arrangement or a transcription has a dual compo… [Previous page](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/users-greatest-roon-tips/255283.md?page=3)