Parenthesis breaks Roon Search

[Bryan_Nieman]

If an album in your local library has an album named “( )”, Roon can no longer search for that artist.

This was discovered when I could no longer search for the artist Sigur Ros who has a 2002 album titled “( )” which I have in FLAC format in my local library. A search attempt for “sigur” yields “Can’t connect to Roon Search”

The log has an entry:

Critical: [search] error performing instant search: System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object.

at Base.Result`1.get_Value()

at Sooloos.Broker.Music.LibraryApi.<>c__DisplayClass5_0.<<Sooloos-Broker-Api-Library-UnifiedAutocomplete>b__0>d.MoveNext()

If I change the Album Tag on the album from “( )” to “( ) test”, search works again.

I also tested this with another unrelated file and set the Album tag to “( )” and it also broke Roon search for the artist (I made the Artist “RoonTest”).

I am bringing this to your attention as it may be affecting other users. My work around is to rename the album for the time being.

[zenit]

I’ll have a look, thank you for reporting this

[Andrew_Webb]

I can confirm this. System and network details are in my profile.

[zenit]

Can you check again, please? It should not throw any errors anymore.

The search query sigur ros is effectively the same as sigur ros ( ). Unfortunately, the brackets/parenthesis get stripped away by the search engine and won’t find the album that way.

[CrystalGipsy (Resisting the flow!)]

Hmm that’s not good but even Qobuz can’t find this album by using ( ) on its own

[zenit]

There are a few special cases like this. Ed Sheeran’s shenanigans come to mind + =, etc.:

It’s a solvable issue but requires some special treatment deep down in the search engine.

[Andrew_Webb]

Nobody is searching for Ed Sheeran, though, so it doesn’t matter!

Can confirm that this parenthesis bug is fixed.

[zenit]

Closing the ticket now. If you’re still having trouble please let me know.