They could, if they want to. If metadata isn’t there, they could still leave it up to the user to enter them and act inside the software as if the “album”/“track” wasn’t identified. If you have a fully unidentified album, all the links work. However, the rezension of the album cannot be edited. If that would be possible, I would have all my albums unidentified and add the information on my own. Doing so, I would be sure not to have unuseable metadata and even translated rezensions which would be great.
There was only one version of that album.
The compositions in question are all showing correctly. Nothing here is mixed up. There is just no context menu to go to them directly. But the compositions are all there in composition browser, with composition date and all. This is not to be blamed on bad metadata but seems to be a functionality fail.
If the compositions are all there, then at least the functionality is given. So, hopefully they correct this bug with the missing link.
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That would indeed be very nice.
There could be a couple of reasons for this, maybe more.
- The track or tracks are not recognised by Roon as a Composition in its cloud database.
- I’ve noticed that for a composition that is a work with a number of parts, the 3-dots menu does not include the “Go to Composition” option on the Work entry (which is generated by Roon on the fly from the actual tracks), but only on the 3-dots menus by the Part tracks.
- However, on the Work entry, if you see the disc icons with a number (representing the number of recordings), you can click on this to go straight to the Composition page.
Which is of course the case for about 70-80% of classical compositions.
Yes that icon shows up if you have 2 or more recordings of any given composition. It does not show up when you have only one recording. Another inconstancy that I noticed.
It’s not an inconsistency. If you only have one recording of a work in your library, there’s no need to show that.
I take it that your collection is completely local - you don’t subscribe to streaming services? Because if you did, you would see the number of recordings of the work available from the streaming services in addition to what you had locally.
Have you got a lot of albums in your library that have not been successfully identified?
I have Qobuz, and I see a number displayed there. but that is often silly. I looked at some Stockhausen work this weekend and Roon was telling me there are 38 recordings of that work. I could not quite believe that and when I clicked there to check, there where in fact 3 recordings but Roon was counting all the individual movements. Also I prefer to focus on my library and only of I am casually interested click that Qobuz count. It is a pretty meaningless count very often.
Not really. Maybe 150 out of 4000-something.
You can tell Roon that you are only interested in complete recordings. It’s an option on the menu of the Recordings list on the Composition pages.
If you would read my very first post in this thread, where I have already pointed to the fact that that funtion does not work correctly either…
@dylan had subsequently told me, that they are working to fix this.
Yes, I see „go to composition“ next to the individual movements. One would expect it next to the composition but ok, I can live with that. Thanks
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