Thatâs what I love about Roon!
The Forum you mean? I tease ! 
Any way to find new music, Iâm cool with that! And Iâve come across all kinds of good music via the Forum. Still, I love the exploration in Roon.
An absolute treasure chest for the best soulful house music is Iain Willisâ Buttnaked (LOL) Soulful House Session mixes. His Chilled Soul podcasts are great too but for a different mood.
https://promodj.com/iain.willis/podcasts?page=1
I think theyâre available back to 2014. Iâve been listening to his mixes since it started (even before 2014 but the older mixes arenât available now) and buying tracks on Traxource and Beatport and other places, since a lot still arenât available on Tidal/Spotify/Apple.
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For those interested in todayâs more popular R&B, this banger just out today.
This is a collaboration I never thought Iâd ever see, after a certain incidentâŚ
Noah â40â Shebib on production with his signature âvery lo-fi underwater sound" with the sample in the background.
Heâs always messing with me (and other fans of the style heâs pioneered) because heâs testing if we know what song heâs sampled. Iâm still trying to work it out.
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Like youâre not already a prolific poster 
I assumed you listen to 2 streams at a time, one in each ear. Posting tracks on the forumâs your full time job right 
Hilarious⌠Iâve been busted !
In this thread, I see Iâve posted ~1200 times in ~2 yearsâŚ
Iâve never been good at maths 
but thatâs an average of under 2 posts per day in this thread?
I think youâre right⌠I do need to slow it downâŚ
Welcome to the thread by the way. While youâre here, please feel free to share any of your soul music favourites!
@grossmsj (cc: @dabassgoesboomboom). I just searched for âall that matters realsoulâ and it was the 2nd top track hit (in the UK anyway). I think the problem may be that, for new tracks without any popularity data, unless you are quite specific, older matches will come up first.
Cc: @brian
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Thatâs interesting. Maybe I donât understand the Search function. Then I wonât hate on Roon, but on me!
So I just searched for All That Matters, select âview all tracksâ, then put Reelsoul in the filter and get nothing.
But if I use the search âall that matters reelsoulâ it is the top result!
I can now understand why the second search including the artist works better. But I donât understand why using the filter of the artist would not. And I donât understand why searching by Reelsoul doesnât give a hit but Mark Di Meo does?
Maybe itâs the old âmetadata thingâ⌠(always blame the metadata)
Classic⌠My favourites, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on production.
âVelvety warmthâ sounds spot on.
âThatâs the Way Love Goesâ samples James Brownâs 1974 song âPapa Donât Take No Messâ and The Honey Drippersâ 1973 song âImpeach the Presidentâ. It is set in common time, in the key of G minor. Jacksonâs vocal chords range between the tonal nodes of high-tone F 3 to low-tone Bb 4 . The song is in a medium tempo of 100 beats per minute with a repeating chord progression of EbMaj7âF6âGm. ] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine noted its âmeasured hip-hop loop and titular one-line hookâ. Patricia Smith of The Boston Globe also noted that the chorus of the song consists of a simple line, âdeep male voice weaves its way through the chorus, and Janet experiments with the layering of spoken lines, chanting the title like a mantraâ. J.D. Considine of The Baltimore Sun noted that Jackson performed the vocals in the composition at the lower end of her vocal register, âcoaxing a velvety warmthâ that perfectly complements the lyrics. *
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Soulful house CLASSIC. Not available on Tidal/Spotify/Apple (buy it on Traxsource) but YouTube link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHW_448kucc
Gorgeous vocals by Melinda Jackson, bongos and sax⌠What more do you need 
Because only a limited set of results are returned in search and it wasnât there. 
Okay Joel. That makes sense.
Iâll put an artist name in the search string when I do this in the future.
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@grossmsj Scott, Iâm not saying that we canât do better here. Perhaps we need to tweak the search more favourably towards new releases, but itâs a tough balance to achieve. In general, and perhaps saying the obvious, the more precise you can be with your search terms, the better the results.
I understand Joel. I trust you guys will take direct examples to build a better product.
In this particular case, had the list of returned searches been longer the additional filter by artist would have worked. I donât know if there is a limit to what is displayed, or if there are more results in an undisplayed queue. But letâs face it, if your search entry is an exact match for something in the library you should be able to refine the view by a filter.
But I didnât know I could put these additional search criteria in the search field. Now I know, and Iâll be more productive in the future as a result.
Thanks!
Scott
Was it in your library?!
No. I was searching Tidal through Roon. I was on the Tidal splash page.
Yeah, sorry I used library indiscriminately here.
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