… and specifically with reference to tagging multi part works:
The new Work, Part and WorkID tags that Roon now recognises - how does one create these? Please provide instructions (at least general, indicative, in the knowledge base).
I’m assuming this has to be done outside Roon, with some other software (this point ought to be made clearer for users in the documentation). I have Yate, and it has a field for Work, although using it and then re-scanning the album in Roon did not seem to change anything. I could not see how to create these fields in dbpoweramp convertor. (I’m in a Mac environment).
Some basic advice for those of us who are not specialists would be helpful: the fact that these need to be created outside Roon, recommended software for doing so, and procedures for establishing these fields. This last point seems to be crucial: it is no good Roon being able to use these tags to solve problems, if users can’t figure out how to establish and impose the tag.
I will be experimenting with this over the weekend, so I cannot yet say what will work and what does not. But if you have Yate, it should be all that you need (I also have Yate). Yate allows you to create custom fields (up to a maximum of 10 I think). So it should be possible to define WORKID, PART and a few others, tag the files and have Roon read the data.
I know Yate has a field for “Work” but it is mapped to a tag called “WORK–NAME”. Roon won’t see it, because it seems Roon is looking for a tag named “WORK”. As mentioned above, it should be possible to create this as a custom field.
Thanks for this.
I figured out how to make fields in Yate, successfully it seems, when inspected using dbpoweramp.
However - and perhaps @support can help here - no (well, no complete) changes in Roon.
I am playing with a four disk album of Beaux Arts Trio Phillips Complete recordings 1967-71. The discs have subfolders for works, which are showing up as albums themselves, with only some of the subfolders showing. I end up with 4 unidentified albums, each of which has 1 work in it, not 3 or 4. With one of these I removed all the subfolders. With all of them I have used Yate to add track and disc numbers.
I go to get Roon to re-scan at the end of various stages of these changes, and nothing happens. I’m not even sure that Roon is re-scanning.
I know that Roon as working hard atm - it is a third of the way through analysing my 80k ish tracks, (using the 4 cores setting for an i5 sonic transporters; the files are on a NAS (in the main)).
I now have more of the works showing up as albums. I will wait till Roon finishes analysing everything. Hopefully then they will all show up, and I can try merging into one multi-disc album.
Thanks Paul. Yes, that is the Album; the discs are stored in folders as you indicate, but then the works are in further subfolders, which Roon is currently reading as albums. At least they are all showing up now (I think). I will try the merge once analysis finishes. I played around with the merge albums function before all the work-folder-albums were showing up, and it seemed like it would be able to manage it once they did indeed all show up.
Loving 1.3 generally though.