The criteria that are active in Focus depend on the context of what is currently being displayed. So for example, in the Album browser, the main criteria are Genres, Release Date, Performers, Composers, Production, Most Played, etc. Here’s an example using my collection (filtered looking for albums by Karajan):
If I choose one of the multi-disc Karajan boxsets, and go to its album page, then I get a set of criteria focused on the performers, composers, conductors ensembles producers and compositions:
(this is a scrollable window - there are more criteria available)
Don’t forget that criteria can also be negated (the “NOT” function) and the query that results from a given set of Focus criteria can be saved as a Bookmark. There’s a lot of power here - best thing is to experiment…
In this scenario, what would you use as ALBUMARTIST? Would it be the individual release artist (ie the pianist) or “Various Artists”? I have only been able to get boxed sets to work using the latter.
Incidentally, MusicBrainz does have an entry for the recent Hyperion box:
Yep. Except that there appears to be no way for me to create a folder using Innuos Sense or to select albums in Roon and place them is a folder to prevent the albums from populating the Albums Library view. That was the first place I looked. Perhaps I’ve misunderstood this and one can place multiple albums into a single folder in Roon, thus concealing them from the Album Library view?
For Internal Storage on a Nucleus or a ROCK system, it would be possible to use Windows File Explorer or Mac Finder to create folders and move files on them. This may be possible with the Innuos file system, but then again, I don’t know whether such manipulation will upset the Innous application.
Album = The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Edition 1991 - 2007 (as per MusicBrainz)
CD # = 1 ..50
Main folder = The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Edition 1991 - 2007
Sub folders = CD1 ..CD50
If you have a try already then move the folder out of the watched folder and do a Database clean to remove any evidence (Settings > Library > Library maintenance)
Drop your folder back into the watched folder and Voila , you should get a Box of 50 discs and it should ID
As an alternative , MusicBrainz seems to have releases for each CD so a split would beOK , and then make a Tag in Roon to collect them together in that case. Albeit a lot of work
Artist = Pianist
Album Artist = Pianist
Album = The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Edition Volume 01 - Paderewski: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 17 / Moszkowski: Piano Concerto in E major, op. 59 = MusicBrainz
CD # = 1 in all cases
Main folder = The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Edition 1991 - 2007
Sub folders = CD1 Paderewski , Moszkowski etc
NB the 01 .. 09 in the album title to force proper sorting in the Tag
Thank you @Mike_O_Neill . I’ll take a crack at it and wait to hear from Innuos to see what they’d suggest. Most kind of you to take the time to describe this.
Thank you @Geoff_Coupe for the excellent Focus examples. I shall indeed experiment more with Focus.
Thank you @Rugby for the mention of Files. If only I could figure out a way to populate this from the Innuos ripping system.
I have nightmares about iTunes . . . Although I never used it to digitize, iTunes (on a PC, ha-ha) was so terrible at messing with metadata (without being asked to do so!) that I uninstalled it as soon as I could. I rip to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy, although I do have dBpoweramp. I typically use GD3 but sometimes MusicBrainz as the metadata provider within EAC. I started with EAC, so it works for me. I sometimes correct metadata that really needs to be corrected with MP3tag, but I usually just let Roon do its thing. I use good EAC settings from the web to rip to FLAC. I love that Roon is forgiving on crummy local metadata since it has its own metadata, and it doesn’t touch any metadata that I care to curate (like for rare or unpublished works). On box sets, I just adjust in EAC to Disc 1 of xx, Disc 2 of xx, etc. I folder each disc separately, and so far, Roon has not had any issue with that. I also have top-level folders for my own Genres that Roon doesn’t care about (but I like to keep my albums sorted that way). Happy digitizing!!
Yep. Not that you were suggesting this, but just a note that you might not want to actually rip to a watch folder directly. I copy over to my top “Music Library” watch folder when done so that Roon doesn’t get upset about being fed a track at a time.
I go one further , I have my main library on a desktop feeding JRiver , I rip, import and sort out metadata on a “working drive” and only when I am happy do I drop into Roon , so Roon sees it once .I use SyncBack Pro to keep PC and ROCK SSD in sync
I don’t and you are right. One should never, imho, rip to a Roon Watched folder directly, that can cause import errors, etc. Rip to a dedicated staging area. Review the Rip’s metdata. Correct if any errors. And then, move to the Roon Watched Storage Folder. Again, imho and 11 years of Roon experience.
Although I never used it to digitize, iTunes (on a PC, ha-ha) was so terrible at messing with metadata (without being asked to do so!) that I uninstalled it as soon as I could. I rip to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy, although I do have dBpoweramp. I typically use GD3 but sometimes MusicBrainz as the metadata provider within EAC. I started with EAC, so it works for me. I sometimes correct metadata that really needs to be corrected with MP3tag, but I usually just let Roon do its thing. I use good EAC settings from the web to rip to FLAC. I love that Roon is forgiving on crummy local metadata since it has its own metadata, and it doesn’t touch any metadata that I care to curate (like for rare or unpublished works). On box sets, I just adjust in EAC to Disc 1 of xx, Disc 2 of xx, etc. I folder each disc separately, and so far, Roon has not had any issue with that. I also have top-level folders for my own Genres that Roon doesn’t care about (but I like to keep my albums sorted that way). 
Happy digitizing!! 
