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This is correct (I tend to use prefer file but both says 2011 in the edit album section)
but roon picks a random 1974 for the recoding date on the main album view.
which is funny since I wasn’t aware that an artist did record an album likely before he was even born.
Is there really no validation of metadata so that albums could if ever be from the formed date onwards?
I’ll keep an eye on this if it’s really a metadata issue of if I could locate more but this one. I can’t think of something being that wrong, at least not if the edit album metadata section shows the correct date.
heh heh. We were both responding to edited/deleted texts.
“Recording date” is or should be…wait for it…the date the recording was made. Release date is, by definition, later than the recording date, but of course it could be much later. And original data…don’t hold me to this…is the original date this music was first released.
So all the dates on your screenshot are plausible. Look at allmusic to see what they have.
PS Hit the little pencil icon below the text to edit a post.
manually fixed it now. For god sake, perhaps either allmusic and/or roon could do a line preventing to serve metadata where a recording happened years before an artist formed. This simply makes no sense. Since no metadata is way better but wrong metadata, since if I need to manually check album by album this isn’t a real advantage against getting no metadata at all.
I reverted your edits so your original post is now visible. It seems that our metadata provider has given us incorrect information here. I will reach out to them and request that they make a change and will let you know when I hear back from them.
This is also something we are investigating making improvements to in the future. I can’t provide specifics at this time, but we hope to be able to better validate the dates that are being provided to us in the future.
Thanks for the feedback here, Stefan. We genuinely appreciate it!
Nope, this is impossibe. Got some vinyls where the paperwork lists a differnt number of tracks, and some others where the playlength of tracks won’t match the vinyl in any way.
Same with CDs.
Thus, since the humans working at the publishers aren’t free from faults, one must be stupid to things the ones feeding amg, musicbrainz and others are that differnt
If roon adds more provider so that european and eastern content get listed differnt to “unknown” I might revert my settings. But I can’t stand having 25% artists without metadata.
Anyway … metadata issue and flawless music playing is way better but the other way round. Since so … ‘upset’ is surely wrong … ‘puzzled’ would fit.
I think/hope you took my comment as an attempt at humor.
But seriously, you would think Rovi, as the purveyor of data, would take extraordinary efforts to keep their data as complete as can be, and as error-free as can be. IMO, they aren’t there yet.
