Whats happened to Roon Radio now?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@DDPS

It’s the surest way for me to get a shuffle that meets my current listening mood.

As far as I know, without streaming it’s just shuffle, no? It’s limited to your library, of course, so assuming that your library contains music you like, it would more often than not play that

What if I don’t have TIDAL or Qobuz?

If you don’t have a streaming service-connected in Roon you can still use Roon Radio. In this case, Roon Radio will be limited to your local library and does not take advantage of our machine learning technology. We recommend using TIDAL or Qobuz for the best Roon Radio experience.

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FAQ: What's Radio and how does it work?

Edit: There is/was apparently some algorithm but random shuffle is also an algorithm in the strict sense. Now idea how much it differs:

Roon Radio not working well with local library only (no streaming)

If you want to compare streaming services to Roon, you must give Roon the same access to content. Roon does it really well if it has access to content, just like all the streaming services If you limit yourself to your relatively small library, it runs a dumber algorithm because it is limited to a small subset of music. If you don’t want to stream, then I’d argue that Roon gives you something with local content, which is better than any of the streaming services, which ignore your local conte…

Roon Radio not working well with local library only (no streaming)

When you turn off streaming services, it’s the same algorithm as Swim.