A Question About Compositions in Roon

[Geoff_Coupe]

While I was answering another question in the forum, I came up with one of my own:

I have four recordings of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048 in my library, yet the Composition browser lists only three:

The one that is missing is the recording on Undercurrents:

I suspect that this is because the other three recordings are classified as a Work with three Parts (i.e. there are three tracks in the Work), whereas this missing recording is a single track.

What’s the best way to get Roon to recognise this single track as a recording of BWV 1048?

If push comes to shove, since I have this album in my local music library, I suppose I could tack on two extra tracks of 1 second silence after the existing track and use a metadata editor to assign Work and Part numbers, but is there a simpler way?

[BlackJack]

@Geoff_Coupe

I suspect that this is because the other three recordings are classified as a Work with three Parts (i.e. there are three tracks in the Work), whereas this missing recording is a single track.

Already tried to turn-off “Only complete recordings”?

[BlackJack]

@Geoff_Coupe

I suppose I could tack on two extra tracks of 1 second silence after the existing track and use a metadata editor to assign Work and Part numbers, but is there a simpler way?

IDK, but I would possibly try to add the two missing parts (file with one work and three part tags) to the file first and see what happens?

[Geoff_Coupe]

@BlackJack

Already tried to turn-off “Only complete recordings”?

Good thought, but that still hasn’t flushed this particular recording out of the woodwork, even though some other recordings (which are complete) are now showing up…

[Geoff_Coupe]

I tried adding the Work/Part tags to the file and rescanned the album - no change; still not showing up…

[BrianW (Brian)]

Is it a composition at all? Just because it shows a composer doesn’t necessarily mean Roon thinks so. Do you get a go to composition via the 3 dot track edit? If not, try re-identifying with a different version.

[Geoff_Coupe]

@BrianW

Do you get a go to composition via the 3 dot track edit?

Nope - that’s the point. I only get a “Go to J. S. Bach” option. And there is no different version. I even tried altering the track title to match the composition title: “Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major BWV 1048” - no dice.

[BrianW (Brian)]

Then it’s the long standing no composition bug. It’s been known about for a long time.

Tracks without ability to maintain composition

I opened this topic some days ago and user BrianW gave me a good hint to have this more or less solved. He also pointed me to a longer post which is discussing a similar issue. This issue is really annoying and does make the linking of performances sometimes impossible. Is there any solution from roon planned? I do not understand why roon “blocks” the composition even when I enter proper composer tags. It does not do that if an album is unidentified, however, if unidentified I always have to e…

If no other version to match against, then no solution unless you unidentify.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Hah! - unidentifying the album gets the composition straightaway… Thanks.
(files this away in his toolbox of tips and tricks)