The amount of albums in my Database is growing fast.
Because all albums are individual albums my brain is getting overloaded when scrolling.
For example. I have 100 “ top 40 best off albums “ ( 4 per Year )
I remember the days that one could buy a box. Inside that box there were multiple albums.
Is it possible to create a sort of “ box” construction in Roon.
At first glance I just see the “ box”. Then when opening I see all albums inside that box as individual albums. Can that be done ?
Thanks for your feedback
mjw
(Father! Father! Resist not! Let us destroy the core! Set us free!)
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Yes. The simplest way is to organize your music in folders, and the use Focus to select the folder. You can bookmark each view.
You may also achieve what you want using Focus only.
I use focus and bookmarks and tags for creating special lists. That however does not reduce the amount of albums I see when scrolling through albums. correct ?
mjw
(Father! Father! Resist not! Let us destroy the core! Set us free!)
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The Albums view by default will show every album in your library. If you have multiple versions of the same release, you may hide these, but that’s all.
You can change the sort order or use the filter to reduce the number or albums displayed.
in a tag you manually add what you want and choose a name fr the tag so you could literally have 1970, 1971 etc
finally you can create a “tag of tags” so Create “00 - Year Disc Sets” and add to it all the individual year Tags
the 00 is important as it will force tis Tag to always be the top left corner tag when you open the tag view. You may want to name years as “Z_1971” so that they sort to the bottom.
This is a Tag of Tags, the Naxos set is a Tag containing individual albums , the others are box sets
Thanks for the info.
I was not familiar with the Tag in a TAG concept
While it is for sure interesting it doesn’t provide me the solution I’m looking for in a attempt to reduce the amount of albums I see in the main album view. ( 4000 albums)
Call me old fashion but I like to scroll through my library like as in the old days when one scrolled through its vinyl collection.
Sometimes when I scroll I see that long forgotten album and play it again. But 4000 albums is just way too much to go trough
Have you tried using the discover feature in Roon? If your issue is being overwhelmed it is a much calmer and more relaxing way to browse your library.
Roon is introducing the ability to display albums in My Albums in random order (currently available in the Early Release version, so should become available in the next Production version).
While this won’t reduce the number of albums displayed in My Albums, it should help to more easily discover albums buried deep in our collections.
You cannot really do what you want from the album view. But you can from the “folder” view. I have thousands of albums too but if, for example, I want to quickly locate a compilation, I select my compilations folder and then filter on 90, if I am looking for a 90’s compilation:
Browsing this way, like in a record store might suit you better than focus or tags if you don’t want to think about it too much (which I don’t). This will dramatically reduce your scrolling but it depends on you organising your albums in folders in some meaningful way (to you) in your underlying OS. You will even get artwork in the folders as you can see, but I am not sure what the rules are as it is not that important to me so when I browse in folder view it is a bit hit and miss.
