Search does not find all related albums

[Squeezemenicely (Dom)]

I used to have different results when searching on Roon on my iPhone or on my PC.
Now I just stumbled upon a problem - which seems to be new.
When I do a search in Roon and enter album title plus artist, I do not get all results. This happens with every search.
Having loads of operas, there are often many different versions of one opera that have the same artist.

Example search: Trovatore Pavarotti - I only get half the results of albums that are actually in my library.
I can do this with absolutely every combination of album /artist and get fewer results than are actually in my local library.

Only searching album title seems to get all albums in my library - but obviously the point of a search is finding a specific version. What happened?

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Hi @Squeezemenicely,

I’d like to get some information about this over to our team. Here’s how I’m hoping you can help:

• Take a screenshot of the results for a search
• Take a screenshot of an album in your library that you believe should be showing for that search

I’ll get this information over to the team for investigation.

Thanks!~

[Squeezemenicely (Dom)]

@dylan ok here are just two examples - could probably give you hundreds, since this happens with every search. Also I have two subs and completely different hardware in different locations and networks - and the problem is in both.
First: Werther with Corelli - Search finds one Complete recording and a recital. Album view with artist shows 5 complete recordings.

Second: Trovatore with Pavarotti - search finds 2 complete recordings plus recitals, album view with artist selected shows 4 complete recordings.

It used to be a problem that Roon PC found all recordings and Roon on iPhone did not (an acknowledged support ticket from Roon) Now both are the same - but in a bad way.

The files obviously have correct metadata, since otherwise they would not show up when you only search for the artist - but search combined album name / artist shows fewer results than are available. I am pretty sure this is a relatively new phenomenon.

[dylan (Dylan Caudill)]

Thanks for the feedback here, @Squeezemenicely. I’ve passed this along to the team for future improvements.

[MRas]

@dylan just wanted to let you know that the issue has not been resolved yet and is still there in Roon 1.8. Same happens when you search a certain name. If you do not choose the associated performer, just half of the albums are shown. thats a bit annoying. any help would be appreciated.

[J_A]

+1 here. Albums of which I have multiple versions do not show up when I search for album title. Only one version show up.

Besides:

• show hidden albums is enabled
• no additional albums are listed in the versions tab.

Help?

[MRas]

@dylan would be great if roon solved this issue in the near future…whats the purpose of having a database where a simple search does not work well. still not implemented in build 763…

[MRas]

Thank you for not taking care of this issue and destroying the remaining functioning of roon search with the last update.

[Fernando_Martin]

SAME problem. I have albums in the database that do not show in the search. So there is no way to play them. I am starting to be sorry I got a lifetime membership.