Your Custom Tags

Roon Software Discussion
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I’m interested to know what innovative uses you’ve made of custom tags. I’ve seen a couple of specifics in disparate threads, such as tagging Tidal MQA in lieu of them showing up properly in Roon.

I have only just got started with them myself. So far, I have:

  1. A ‘Late Night Tales’ tag to collate the compilation series which has metadata from hell.
  2. A ‘Vinyl’ tag to catalogue the albums I have on the black spinny stuff. This is a bit easier on the eye than my rather prosaic spreadsheet.
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I have a number of a different tags that I use for keeping track of albums I want to listen to in various genres, so there’s Play This: Jazz, and Play This: Soul, and Play This: 2016, and so on.

When I need something to listen to I can browse whichever tag I’m in the mood for, or I can just shuffle the whole tag.

I also have a bookmark that filters my tag browser to only the Play This tags, which means I’m always just a few clicks away from something to listen to.

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I’m use tags similarly. I have Mood: Earthy Rock and about 25 other artist tags. I use these to shuffle compatible tunes.

I also have Admin: Lossy Codec.

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We are moving house (during renovation) and so I’m taking the CDs out of their cases and into plastic wallets as when we return my CD racks will no longer be along the walls of the music room.

So I’m tagging my CDs with the index number of the shelves they were housed on (which approximates to the time they were bought) so the tags are now my virtual shelves.

.sjb

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My custom tags for large library of 280,000 tracks:

cello & piano
classical guitar
female jazz singer
hammond b-3
jazz piano trio
classical piano trio
tidal mqa
string quartet
plus many more…

then use focus for performers / composers / format etc…

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My wife and I have completely different tastes in music. So I have one tag for my wife and one for me. They are bookmarked, so it is very easy to change from one “collection” to the other.

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I have a lot of radio drama and audio books. So I tag these for easy access and exclusion.

Also as we host live music I tag all the artists we have hosted or are considering and various associated artists in a Tag with the venue name.

Christmas is another useful one.

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You can have different profiles for this scenario.

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I don’t think you’re correct here.

From KB

Profiles do not contain library level changes, so you can’t use profiles to have different libraries per user. For that, we suggest using Focus, Tags, or the profiles favorites

.sjb

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You can, and I am aware of it. But profiles don’t seem to do what I want, at least not as easily. It’s just one click on a bookmark to change from my collection to hers.

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It took me awhile to try out tags. Some things I’ve created tags for:

  • Concept albums
  • Promo-only releases
  • Artists I’ve seen live in concert
  • Live recordings of concerts I’ve attended
  • Artists/music I associate with the Jersey Shore scene
  • Artists that appeared in Paul Wallfisch’s “Small Beast” music saloon
  • When I was younger we had to move a few times. Every town was a slightly different “musical era” with different memories for me. So I created tags for some of these with the albums I was listening to back then.
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A new tag I’ve just started on is adding all the classical titles recommended by the BBC Radio 3 ‘Building A Library’ series.

It’s taking quite a long time with the current slow search problems :slight_smile:

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I like to ask you something about Tags.
There are Tags in Roon and so called “Meta Tags” inside the files I ripped.

I added a Custom Meta Tag “Style” to my files and now I like to focus on these self defined styles.
Is there a chance to filter my library by the content of this “Style” Mata Tag?

Any ideals would be appreciated :pray:

Best DrCWO

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You have to use Tags created in Roon. However, you can add a tag in Roon by using RoonTrackTag and RoonAlbumTag in the file meradata. Please revew the Tags Faq for more information.

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Hi @Rugby,
thanks’ for the hint.

I tried to acquire more information on this topic and this is what I understood:

  • My custom Metatdata Tag in the files called “STYLE” cannot be grabbed by Roon.
  • I had to include in each file a metatag called “RoonAlbumTag” In this I can place my style information and whatever else I like.

Is this correct? Please confirm :pray:

Next question:

  • After having done that, how can I set the Focus to the information in the “RoonAlbumTag”? Would you please be so kind sharing one or more screenshots on how this can be done?

You for your understanding: I’d like to know before I start the task of adding this Metatag to all my files.

Thanks’ and best
DrCWO

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Great thread!
My main use of tags is

  • best of year x
  • essential albums from genre x
  • group certain playlists so I can play them all on shuffle
  • specific metal genres (since roon puts it all in pop/rock )
  • Xmas music
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I like the Tags within Roon.

1 for Purchases from Acoustic HighRez
1 for Purchases from HD tracks
Blu Ray 2.0 Channel
Blu Ray 5.1 Channel
DSD
DVD 2 Channel
DVD 5.1 Channel

–MD

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I use tags for a variety of purposes:

  • Individual track rating (1-5 stars)
  • Grouping / identifying box sets
  • Metadata maintenance tags: for example when I notice that the album art of an album I’m playing is incorrect or has some flaws, I will tag the album so that I later find it and fix it
  • Tags to identify duplicate tracks

I also have a tag that is only assigned to a single playlist. I have a bookmark that shows me tracks with 3, 4 or 5 star rating tags, which do not have a duplicate tag and do not have the playlist tag. I use this to add these tracks to the playlist. The tag on the playlist is “inherited” on the tracks. That way a track is never added twice to the playlist.

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Yes.

Well, the first way is to just click on the Tag section and then the appropriate Tag. Or,…

There is a Tag button to filter by which is in different places. On the phone UI it is under Focus, first option. For tablets and PCs, it is a little “sale tag” Icon at the top, like this…

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There are other ways to group. For example one you’ve made Tags for your “Styles”, you can then create a “Styles” tag and tag the other tags with that. Then you can go to the Tag Section, click on Styles and you will see all the style tags you created there listed. At this point you can even bookmark this.

Example, I create and apply Tags called “A”, “B”, “C”. I then create, in Roon not using AlbumTags, a Tag called Style and apply that Tag to Tags “A”, “B”, “C”. After that, I just open the Style Tag section and they are all listed there.

Example,

I made 3 tags, “A is for Ambient”, “B is for Boogie-Woogie” and “C is for Country” (the style tags that would be applied by RoonAlbumTag. Then, in Roon, I created a tag called "Styles’ and I applied that to the other three tags. When I open up the “Styles” Tag page, I get this…

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You’ll notice that at the top it will tell you what content that Tag includes. This is because Tags are not limited to Albums or Tracks, but can be applied and mixed with Genre, Composer, Artist, Composition and others.

If you see this example, there is a Tag which includes both an Artist, Album, Playlist, and the Styles Tag I just made. Notice the title identifies the type of content tagged.

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Hi @Rugby,
I thank you very much :smiley:

Just added the RoonAlbumTag filled with content Jazz to an album from Agnes Obel. And believe it or not I now can filter by tag for the content “Jazz”. :+1: :+1: :+1:

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This is really great :smiley:

I now will add the RoonAlbumTag filled with the content of STYLE using MP3Tag.
And yes, takes time but it also works with FAC files :+1:

Thanks a lot
Best DrCWO