Years in Focus - which date category is used?

[Stan_Jones]

Wrong Date Category Used by Focus

When I select by years using Focus, roon appears to use release date and not recording date. And that’s a problem. For example, if I want to use Focus to listen to jazz recorded in the 2010’s I end up with some that was recorded decades ago. In particular, setting Focus to 2010-2019, the set of albums includes half a dozen by Art Pepper, who died in 1982 and whose music, while immimently ernjoyable, is hardly characteristic of the jazz of the 2010s. And these are not reissues, but the original i…

Unfortunately, there has been no response from roon staff. I suspect that the reason that Release Date and not Recording Date is the date used in Focus is that Release Date is a property of Albums where Recording Date is more a property of tracks (an album can have but one release date while being composed of tracks recorded on many different dates) and roon is very - some might think excesively - album oriented.