Update available for Roon and Roon ARC – Roon excludes songs

In recent months, Roon Labs LLC. has been working with great dedication to gradually process and integrate a wide range of customer requests, which have proven to be particularly important through the software company’s community and customer surveys, into the software, if this seems sensible and possible.

This also means, for example, that the latest update, which is now available with Roon 2.0.40 and Roon ARC 1.0.56, offers a possibility as the most significant new feature that many people probably did not expect, but many others wish it were possible.

You can’t get in here

Numerous users have approached Roon Labs LLC with the request to ban certain content from their media library. According to the software company, pieces of music that you never want to hear again don’t actually have to appear in your own media library.

Since software like Roon normally works on the principle that entire folders on a data carrier are integrated and all the music titles stored in them are added to the media library, or the entire range of a streaming provider is listed, this is an entirely reasonable request.

With Roon 2.0.40 and Roon ARC 1.0.56, it should now be possible to block artists, albums, individual tracks, but also composers, so that the corresponding content is not added to the media library. This way, your music collection can be freed from unwanted clutter, as Roon Labs LLC. notes.

Incidentally, banned content is also synchronised via the Roon cloud services, as Roon Labs LLC reports, so that this information is also included in all functions that automatically present the user with suitable recommendations.

Of course, all content is still available. It can be displayed again at the push of a button and can be added to playlists in the usual way. This is mentioned for the sake of completeness.

Foto © Roon Labs LLC. | Roon 2.0.40 and Roon ARC 1.0.56

Further improvements

In addition, Roon 2.0.40 and Roon ARC 1.0.56 include a number of other improvements, such as timecode lyrics in Roon ARC, an intuitive download interface in Roon ARC, and performance optimisations specifically for the Roon app for Google Android.

Prices and availability

The new apps are now available in the respective app stores and can be downloaded directly via the update function. Of course, these are all free of charge for existing users.

Getting to the point

It may seem like a strange feature at first, but the one that Roon Labs LLC. is now introducing with Roon 2.0.40 and Roon ARC 1.0.56 can actually be extremely useful in everyday use: the ability to ban individual songs, but also entire albums and an artist’s complete oeuvre, from your own media library. This can be useful, for example, if you share Roon with other family members and your tastes differ greatly. This way, the kids’ songs no longer appear in your own library and are not taken into account when it comes to recommendations and automatically generated playlists.