Focus MP3 by Kbps in Roon 2.0

Hiya.

I’m trying filter out my low kbps MP3 files but can’t find how to do this in 2.0. Earlier versions seemed to have this function but I’m new and have started straight into 2.0.

If you look at a track file info it lists kbps e.g. 320kbps MP3, but Focus only lists Format as MP3 and I can’t find bit rate as an option in Focus.

Is there a way to only show my higher bit rate MP3s?

Thanks, Fraser

Welcome to the Roon community, @Fraser_Webb.

This is possible using Focus, Sample Rate:

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Thanks but I don’t have that option on any of my devices: Macbook, iPhone, Surface Pro. Seems like it’s missing from 2.0. Was your screen shot from 2.0?

I don’t have it either

Edit: No I do, but getting there is quite odd: Do NOT select mp3 or a sample rate in Focus. Instead, first click View More under Sample Rate:

And there it is:

Yes, I’m using Roon 2.0.

You already have Focus set (note Focused on:). Clear this, and the option should be available.

Hi guys, thanks for your help. So here’s what happened. When I only a few hundred albums in my library, that option for View more than was not available across any devices, regardless of whether I had selected anything:

I finished importing my library and now it shows. I guess at that the initial stage, even with hundreds or thousands of mp3 tracks, they must have all been the same bitrate so Roon didn’t show the option?

Thanks for your help, much appreciated.

Looking at the number of tracks it still seems surprising there wasn’t more than one type of bitrate.

The import took a couple of days to copy from my very old NAS to my Surface Pro so my other guess is that maybe Roon needed to complete processing every thing before it would show the variation in bitrate.

Thanks again, Fraser

Maybe the audio analysis was not finished because the reimport was not finished? Maybe it needs to do the analysis to know the bit rates, and maybe it does not show the fields before this is finished. Just guessing but maybe not entirely implausible.