List of updates from Roon on current issues in 1.8

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I’m also going to remove these issues:

Make Focus an "OR" operation instead of "AND"

We are looking into a quick fix for this. We have some ideas.

Improvements to handling of conductor/performer + composer:

1.8 - Classical test drive and some frustrations

I see some improvements possible with split-personalities like Bernstein. The missing “composers” filter criteria feels relatively simple to work out. We’ll take a look. Artists like Bernstein are tricky to pick apart automatically. There are a lot of people that appear to meet the criteria of being both conductor/performer + composer as a result of one out-of-character recording or some inaccurate metadata, so there is a balance to be struck when defining data-driven rules. In any system like …

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But note that the new Match All/Any logic has highlighted inconsistent behaviour:

Bug 1.8 B778: Inconsistent behavior of selection logic using focus and/or tags

[image] [image] Look at these two screen shots… The selection criteria seem to look the same, right? But the results they give are very different… In the first case, both criteria are tags - one for albums by the label ‘BIS’ and the second for albums with ‘String Quartet’. Both tags combined are interpreted as a logical ‘OR’… show me all albums tagged as ‘BIS’ OR albums tagged as ‘String Quartet’. I ca…