Where are Roon 1.1 Metadata Preference Controls?

[mike (Mike Fass)]

BeBop, How did you use hierarchy to get around the problem of uncategorised Genres? I tried mapping one of my Genres to a Roon proxy, with bad results so I have gone back to having most of my library in Uncategorised

Hey Peter, take a look at my post here:

if you have a genre in your tags called Post Bop, and you want it to appear under Jazz, you should find it in under Uncategorized and set the parent genre to Jazz.

Alternatively, if you want albums with the file tag Post Bop to be grouped in with the existing Roon genre Post-Bop (since our metadata uses a dash), you can set that up under Settings > Setup > Genre Mappings.

Once the mapping is set, any albums that have the file tag Post Bop will be grouped in with Post-Bop, even if the album is unidentified. This allows you to map your own genres to the hierarchy Roon uses out of the box.

Does that make sense? It’s extremely flexible, but it requires a little thought about how exactly you want to use genres in Roon.