Let me preface this post by saying I’m more than happy to have migrated from Sooloos to Roon. I have finally sold the Meridian system and am pleased to see it go as I did find it a bit unreliable … but I will not dwell on that.
It seems finding classical music is challenging as it does not always work well in Roon, although it is better than the Sooloos effort. Intrigued by the composer Busoni, yesterday I tried a focus for that composer but the Roon did not find all Busoni albums.
Using the search engine for “Busoni Piano Concerto” did find both piano concerto CDs but Focus-> composers -> Busoni only found one of the two. It appeared that the “missing” concerto had been identified as extra data was showing for it and “unidentified” was not displayed, but actually it had not been fully recognised so needed identification to show up under Focus.
A similar situation occurred with the Busoni operas in this collection. Items only show under Focus if identified. For some reason, although the correct album cover displayed for the 2 opera set, Roon would not accept identification. Yet they are found by a “Busoni” search!!!
The identification process can be tedius and trustrating in sets of say 6 albums. Each and every item appears initially as CD2 requiring laborious moving of tracks down. Most frustratingly the gelling of say 2 or 3 albums in a set does not seem to make the identification process any easier for the others. And identification fails completely for some albums meaning they are not seen by the focus function.
So I remain confused why “Search” finds “unidentified” albums yet “Focus” does not. And I should add I’m not impressed with the format used for displaying albums under “Search”.
John