Focus needs sub-genre

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Hi, I’m a lifetime user for about 5 years. I LOVE Roon; its tools for deepening my understanding of musicians and albums is wonderful and its Roon Radio tune selection is uncanny. (I do thumbs up/down regularly to contribute to the collective mind. BTW, I hope that playing a Roon Radio tune in its entirety is equivalent to a thumbs up- it should be IMHO). Sounds excellent too compared to e.g. Sonos.

After watching a Hans Beekhuyzen video on 1.8 I I tried Focus for the first time. A cool different way to serve up a pile of music to listen to! That said, I’m frustrated that sub-genre is not in the Focus pulldown.

Prime Example: I like Prog. But sub-genre selection in the Genres section segregates Prog-Rock, Neo-Prog, Kraut Rock, etc. so I can’t get Genesis and Marillion in the same shuffle. If I could select a set of sub-genres in Focus then I could build the Prog-Verse that I’d like to peruse and shuffle without entering all 99 artists by hand- every time I want it.
That said I’m new to the Focus tool. Maybe I’m missing something.

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Try clicking View More at the bottom of Genre column. Clicking the down arrow next to the Top Level Genre should show the sub genres.

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OK- I selected the Pop/Rock Genre, then View More to get the view that offers Focus. +Pop/Rock is already there, showing 1,593 albums. I hit the Focus arrow and in the Focus Genres column, it lists the other genres (irrelevant for what I’m trying to do) Jazz, R&B, Blues etc. but no sub-genres appear at the bottom of the list.

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OK, now I see if I tab the blue arrow-down next to Pop-Rock the sub-genres appear. Mystery solved. But- because Focus is a set of AND filters, I get almost no results where I want a lot of results (if the Focus objects were Neo-Prog OR Prog-Rock OR Art Rock). I saw a posting of someone asking for that.