Would love to know why the same search terms are giving different results for two users.
The search results take a user’s library and history into account (plus maybe other things), so it is expected that they differ. However, when searching for a famous album title, a verbatim search hit should arguably be in the results regardless of these factors
Search is a blunt instrument for when all else fails
Try the Filter technique on either Artist or Album a few letters filters to what you need
Search will look a Qobuz library or Tidal library as well as your local library. All 3 if you have all 3
If you have an album in your library there are far slicker ways of skinning the 
Perhaps we put up with it because we never use it
Each to his own
Ah, if search is truly tied into “Valence” then that could be a huge part of the problem. Just give us search as, well, search. None of the is recommendation crap. We expect to find exactly what we are looking for, not some nebulous track when searching for an artist, or random artist when searching for an album.
There is no „we“, different people each want wildly different things. See the many posts asking for fuzzy search or the people searching für one common word and expecting that the search result surfaces the one hit they had in mind and not the 1000 other tracks who have the word in their title
A typo doesn’t make you an idiot. An overhyped search function which is unable to figure this out, after years and years, that’s another story…
For example, look what the “idiot” duck returns for the same search:
It looks to me like the duck really knows music!
Considering this is known to crash remotes at the moment, not the best option, I have had to stop using all filters as unless you clear them after use it all it will hang the remote after a while.
Cant agree here and most users wont eitther really when other apps and services manage to find what you want, from a simple search string quite easily with or without typos and in some cases these also search local and streaming. I have to say I never have search issues in any other app at all finding what I want by just typing as I woiuld in Roon, only Roon fails to add what I want without having to delve deeper down into its results. We all know its the achilles heal of the software and I still say they are trying to make it more complicated than it needs to be and this is why it fails where others succeed. It really never used to be as bad is it is at the moment.
Everyone who has read the search complaint threads knows that there are all kinds - want to prioritize library, non-library, fuzzy, literal, etc. And people with expectations that can’t be fulfilled. I won’t discuss this.
We are in agreement that Roon should find things that are reasonable. Which it did in this case by typing the correct words 