Try Composer View and select your Composer as a start then use the Filter Funnel to filter by Symphony. This will work if your Target is in your library rather than in a Streaming Service
Just a little bit , both Great Grand parents were Irish , my parents were both English. I was born in Hyde near Manchester but I suspect there is a bit of Irish lurking .
May be down to the amount of Guinness I drank in my youth
Alas easy it may be (who knows how complex software additions are in code that you cannot see !) but the folder view is totally alien to Roonâs design philosophy.
There are 2 things @danny is adamant about , DLNA support and Folder View
Going there is a complete waste of this forums space !!
You forgot to add âmy wayâ to that sentenceâŚ
I do understand your frustrations, and would sometimes even appreciate folder browsing myself, but youâre wasting your breath in light of Roonâs stance regarding that question!
Dig back in the forum for requests for Folder Browsing or DLNA support
Look for replies by @danny , there are a few where he explains in great detail why these 2 features will never happen
Roon is basically Album based , if you insist on changing Album names from that given by the Record Label and adding Composer in a non logical tag then donât expect any software to identify the Album and its Metadata, itâs not just Roon that would struggle.
To a great extent Roonâs ability to search is based on its ability to identify a recording.
â I think Iâll look for a street map of London but before I do that I will rename all my references to be Manchester funny I keep getting a map of Manchester, I wonder why ?â
Is it any wonder youâre struggling.
I have suggested 2 valid methods of navigation to Compositions as these are probably unaltered , find albums that have ârandomâ album names I have no solution for.
Sorry if I canât be of further help. With your personalised tagging scheme it would seem Roon is not the product for you
James, you have had some very helpful suggestions from @Mike_O_Neill on how you might search along with very tactful explanations of what the problem is. Unfortunately changing the default metadata tags to suit your own circumstances is the cause of the problems you are now experiencing.
Roonâs design philosophy was stated from âday oneâ but your research was insufficient and resulted in your subscription to software that doesnât meet your needs. The fact that you have amended standard metadata to suit your own needs means youâre unlikely to find any software package that will do what you want without a significant level of compromise on your part.
To cut to the chase, Itâs not Roonâs fault or design philosophy that causes you to be in the situation you find yourself.
For Pop albums, album titles make sense. But for classical music, one wants the title to list the pieces on the album. For example, YoYo Ma has an album âSix Evolutionsâ. I cannot remember that. I would rename it âSix Cello Suitesâ filed under Bach. Titles on Classical albums are whimsical at best, and unrememberable always.
I have actually tried almost every streaming software, and none are really good. I have 3 Logitech Transporters, but their DACs are ancient and only support up to 24/96. But the interface is good. I use it in my Bedroom. It does not connect to my new DCS Bartok.
I have Emby installed, and it also has a great interface, but again will not use the Bartok as an endpoint. I use it when walking from my phone.
DCS Mosaic is the âapprovedâ Bartok software, but it uses DLNA, and will not accept m4a files.
So I am stuck with Roon. It needs to be more responsive to classical music fans.
If you believe this then raise a feature request to support your individual specific tagging scheme. If there are other people that do it in the exact same way they may vote on it.
Not wishing to labour the point, Roon has been responsive to Classical needs especially in the 1.9 release.
The Focus Tool at Album level is an amazing way of exploring Box Sets (with the caveat that you must know what is there)
But, a big but , is a level of standardisation of metadata, which by your own admission you do not have.
I have been vocal in the past on the shortfalls of Roon wrt Classical music but recent improvements have made great inroads. The only real outstanding item is to allow individual discs within a box set to be individually named along with associated artwork.
If you are âstuck with Roonâ, which I donât think is a bad thing , then my best advice is embrace a more standard format of metadata. There is a whole plethora of tools out there but I doubt your choice of a Linux OS would preclude many.
If M4a is your stumbling block to DLNA , there are many tools that can do conversions of M4a to something more acceptable like MP3 or FLAC. As I have mentioned JRiver would handle both the metadata standardisation and Conversion
A final consideration if you choose these routes maybe the purchase of a cheap Windows PC where youâre choice of metadata and conversion software would be less limited
So, I Browsed Albums, filtered by composer (Chavez) and clicked the 3 dots next to name, and selected âView Albums in my Libraryâ, and get the following: