Missing Bookmarks (and editing questions)

[mike (Mike Fass)]

Hi @Dan_Petit – thanks for the report. There are a few things here that I can explain, and a few that @Eric will follow up with you on to get some more information.

Missing Edits

1. I have gone through composers from a-e and merged all of the dupes (for example John April = Johnny April). Upon return a couple of days later, some (but not all) of the merges have mysteriously unmerged.

For the composers that have “unmerged”, are there new imports in your library? Has your storage configuration changed at all?

Speaking of which, could you provide the details of your storage and collection as described here?

Composer Sorting and Editing

I have edited several composers to fix name sorting, switching last name and first name. Returning a couple of days later, many have reverted. (By the way, the UX for doing a simple fix for a composer which is displaying in the wrong order (showing sorted by first name rather than last name), could be really improved. I should not have to retype the composer’s name…)

Could you explain where you’re having this issue? In most cases, a composer that’s properly identified by Roon should have this information populated automatically, like this:

Also note that the little “copy” icon on the right will copy the current value, so you don’t have to retype the information.

Composition Editing and Grouping

I can’t seem to get Roon to prefer my metadata for a single track at all. I pick a track on some album where I know roon’s data is different from the file data.

This is a little bit complex, but to summarize the issue – when Roon recognizes that multiple tracks on an album together form a multi-part work, we treat that work as a single unit.

A multi-part work will have a composition name and part names, and those names can come from Roon’s automatic metadata or from your file tags.

Composition names and part (or “movement”) names are different from track names – track names are sufficient in software that can’t recognize these 5 tracks as Mahler’s 5th, but Roon does recognize that so track titles are not displayed here. That’s why your edits are also not being shown.

It’s not clear from your screenshots what you’re trying to edit, but if you give some more details, we can help. My post here may help too.

Metadata Preferences

Finally, your question about the radio buttons is one we’ve heard a few times. The “metadata preferences” tab allows you to bulk edit many items at once. The changes will be reflected on the edit tab for each edited item, but the preferences tab does not display the “state” of the item or items you’ve selected – it’s always going to start with nothing selected, and then apply whatever you pick to all the selected items.

Missing Bookmarks and Edits

As for the missing bookmarks (and the apparent lost edits) @Eric is going to follow up and gather some logs from you so we can understand this problem. Hope that all helps!