Some roon genres are so broad that they cut across all genres. One example is “Vocal Music”. I have many identified classical, pop and jazz albums all tagged with this. Another is “Religious” crossing many church based classical genres and also gospel and christian pop genres. I want to batch some global genre edits. Sometimes it makes sense to me to globally replace these genres, sometimes it makes more sense just to add some sub-genres.
I have two questions
For example, if I focus on religious+pop I want to globally replace religious with “gospel”.If I focus on religious+classical I want to globally replace religious with “sacred”. Is there a simple way of getting an edit like this replicated into my file tags? I can of course do this with an external tagger but they are text based. With roon it is much easier, to highlight album covers and make the global edit.
What does roon do with these sorts of genre and sub-genre edits form a radio perspective? For example I want to add several classical sub-genres to vocal music. These might be sacred, secular, choral, art song, lieder, american art song, mélodie. This sort of granularity helps on a shuffle but will roon use user-defined sub-genres to create more focused radio queues?
Roon does not directly modify your files. One option here is to use Roon’s export function. When you export your media it will make a copy and use the genre updates you’ve applied in the file tags.
With the radio feature, Roon works to match every song in your library, so we know exactly when each song was released, who played on the song, what label it came out on, what genre it is, and lots, lots more — So the user-defined sub-genres you create will be taken into consideration when creating radio queues.
Is there anyway of writing out my roon genre edits directly to my files? I can see that export preserves any genre edits I make in roon. But it’s not quite what I wanted to do because I don’t want to preserve my edits in a copy of my library. I want to preserve the edits directly in my library. To do that using export means I am then going to have to re-import everything as far as I can see. The changes I had in mind effect significant parts of a largish library. Doing it this way would take a very long time indeed.
At this time there is no option for Roon to directly modify your files. I would recommend also posting your suggestion in the “feature request” section of the site.
Our product team and developers keep a close eye on that category, so that’s definitely the best place to propose a change like this and get feedback from the Community.