A couple of Roon questions

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Hi,

I’m in the midth of organising my library in Roon and doing so, a few questions came up. Propably one of you can help me here:

  1. Is it possible to select more than just one song from an album list to add the same tag?

  2. How does Roon ignore a band-name’s article for sorting? I’d like to do the same with other countries band names and not only with English names. I do not want to get rid of the name’s article just for sorting, but it should be ignored. I haven’t found anything within the editing option. I tried the first name/last name field without success.

  3. How can I tell Roon not to divide an album into multiple CDs but show it in one list? I tried the editing option, but couldn’t find anything.

Thanks for any help!

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  1. Yes. Long click on your first track, then short click on the desired others, then edit Tags (found on a newly appeared top ribbon).
  2. There are sort tags in your files. I access mine through a third party tagger, like mp3tag or Yate (mac)
  3. Hmmm. Well, explore Edit/Fix track Grouping. Use Disc numbers to separate into multiple discs.
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It should work, I believe. You may have to restart the core to see it in effect.

I don’t think that Roon uses sort tags.

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As long as you have sort by last name set.

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Hi John,

thanks for 1)! Haha! I found out about selecting multiple songs, but first didn’t see the ribbon on the top.

:slight_smile:

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No 1) is solved, thanks to John!

2): I am familiar with tagging music files, but thought that Roon wouldn’t read them… (On Mac I prefer the programme kid3)

3): My music files are not tagged with disc numbers, etc. I always check the file’s metadata to get rid of such entries. It has something to do with Roon’s database that ignores my tags when it finds a “matching” item. It does this although I told Roon not to use its datbase but only my music files for reference…

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2): Sorting tag within the album’s files don’t work. :frowning:

It would be way easier (I guess not only for me), if reading of more tags were supported in Roon.

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  1. solved: I thought there was propably a general settings option for the whole library, but I understand now that this could lead to problems. So you only can do this disc by disc in the editing section.