I have found what you stated absolutely true. After the flawless ten ours of play, I paused it. Today, I let Roon Radio keep going and it hasn’t disappointed me. Roon Radio would normally shutdown and tell me to go find something to play. Hopefully this isn’t a fluke.
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one of these is not like the others.
i understand why this happens, the album in question is tagged as both Jazz and Holiday, but surely Radio is smart enough to include a flag for Christmas/Holiday that prevents its inclusion before, sat December 1st.
Oh my, roon has totally lost it at this stage, never mind new announcements about live music how about fixing this so called AI?
Played some Gilmour today, it was followed up with the usual dross roon puts out guaranteed every single time, ‘Don’t Give Up’ Peter Gabrial, something by Eric Clapton etc, then it went to Chappel Roan, Pink Pony Club and then Spiders by Lola Young!
Work that one out. I am all for new music but how about throwing some modern prog rock at me, jees.
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I know I’m adding to a vintage post but it’s on topic!
I have been using Roon Radio a lot more recently while working on stuff. I’ve realised that I have no idea how it is supposed to work. There does not seem any consistency in what it chooses. I started earlier today by playing ‘Summon’ by LN. LN describe themselves as Viking Goth Metal. Roon Radio just played ‘Into the Sky Uplifting’ by Norlander on the Trance Box album, then ‘Adriano in Siria: Manicure o Dis mi sento’, which is Opera sung by Cecilia Bartoli. This was followed by ‘Links 2 3 4’ by Rammstein - heavy metal!
Having read the article FAQ: What’s Radio and how does it work? I can’t see why it would progress from Trance to Opera to Heavy Metal. All I can think of is that it is picking up on tracks that other people with similar tastes like whatever the genre, rather than choosing tracks within the same genre.
Yes, I could probably put some significant effort into trying to train the thing into what I think should be in the playlist and what shouldn’t. But that will require significant time. Which detracts from the work I’m supposed to be doing.
Is there any easy way to persuade the AI to just play similar tracks from the same genre?
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I have long given up, though there are other options and Roon has other purposes.
came here today after spending a some time just browsing, reading articles while listening to roon radio and realizing that has now picked 18 songs in a row from my local library. is this a new feature? Until I just realized this now, Roon would typically choose more files from my streaming service (Qobuz) even if I had a track in my local library.
I welcome this change as I go out of my way to curate my local library but just curious to see if this is a new undocumented change. 19 songs now.
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I actually think there is something different now and wrong with Roon Radio. I hadn’t used it in a while, but when using it more frequently a couple years ago it did alright. Here’s what just happened:
Started by Play(ing) Now - 7 Seconds, Young Til I Die (It’s Friday night…I want to wake up)
Radio suggests and Plays GG Allin - not my cup of tea, skip
Radio plays New Bomb Turks and Crucif***s (uck) - OK
Roon suggests another GG Allin song - really
Roon Radio plays a Government Issue song and a Youth Brigade song - OK
Roon suggests yet another GG Allin song - come on man!
Roon plays a Reagan Youth song - OK
Roon suggests another Youth Brigade Song - OK but really right after another one 2 songs ago?
Roon suggests yet another GG Allin song! OK Roon Radio, you’re unlistenable! (This literally happened while I was typing the above).
I’m not expecting Roon to read my mind, but this reads like HAL with half the chips out. What’s up with 4 GG Allin songs in 10 minutes and another band repeat? @Roon, there is something going on - you want to look at this.
(I’m sure someone likes GG Allin)
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i just played a playlist, the last song of which was Eva Cassidy’s Fields of Gold from Live from Blues Alley.
Roon Radio’s first selection?
Eva Cassidy, Fields of Gold from Songbird.
pretty sure it’s the same track (Songbird was posthumously released).
pathetic.
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