![]() In this way the total number of labels and the labeling of each album is kept to a minimum proportional to the size of the library. The labels are gradually created as the subsets begin to exceed 20-30 albums. My labels are not exactly genres, but homogeneous subsets by some criteria: era / country / author / genre / instrument / others If you know what you want to hear, you search for its artist or title, but if you want to see what you have of a certain type of music but you don’t remember exactly what you have (what ALWAYS happens after a certain volume of albums (+1,000? ) or from a certain age … I exclusively use tags, the genre system of Roon and / or Spotify only serves to discover, it does not serve to “recover exploring”, let me explain. I will be delighted to learn about other approaches and deepen this reflection, which is at the basis of our love for shared music listening. The complexity is enormous but it has the advantage of growing organically with us, from our own preselection of our library and tastes. Hence the need to build a reference system using personalized tags, which adapt like a glove to our language, technical lexicon, historical and stylistic concepts, etc. The search tool is useful if you know precisely what you are looking for (an artist, a work), but it does not serve to guide a desire based on moods, time, style, etc. In this way, eclectic but effective, I solve the very complex problem of genres (they cannot be attributed to artists or albums except in a crude way and it ends up being useless to organize with precision). ![]() I have developed my own system of Tags (about 500 and growing) that allows me total control of the subset of albums that each one contains. In my case, with a clear preference for building systematic reference libraries in classical and jazz (+8,300 albums), bookmarks and genres are clearly insufficient. The more expert and with large and complex libraries will tend to have more control than the less expert and with simpler tastes and collections, who will tend to use more AI suggestions and general searches. I start from the idea that each listener is different and their way of access is also different. Each has its own filter and sort settings:Įxciting topic of this thread, it promises a lot! To access my music I created several Bookmarks. ![]() Additionally I have 3 tags: Soundtrack, Sampler and Neu (New). Imported albums from streaming services are at first edited to add proper genres. I set all Roon import settings to “prefer file” (except recoding date & location and lyrics). “Metal/Death Metal” or “Classical/Baroque/Opera”) ![]() I make heavy use of genres with multiple entries in the genre tag (eg.All Classical Albums are named “Composer: Album Name”.All my owned media is tagged manually with the following specialities: All in all there are currently 966 albums. The music I have in Roon are mostly self-ripped CDs and bought digital media files. I would love to hear your comments about this and how your approaches are. I want to show/explain how I organize my music and how I access it in Roon. I couldn’t believe that such thread didn’t exist but I found none so I open a new one. After mentioning my bookmark-heavy “workflow” Roon in the thread about the Apple TV extension, asked to hear more about this in a separate thread. ![]()
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