A Use Case for Roon's WorkID Tag

[John_V]

I read about the WorkID tag in Roon’s KB and had programmed it into my tagger, but I didn’t really understand its need until now.

I imported a boxset which had two back-to-back performances of the same three-part composition found on the same disc. Because I had entered the same canonical WORK title into all six tracks (2 performances X 3 Parts), Roon (not surprisingly) put all six tracks under one WORK. Not good.

Enter the seldom-used WorkID tag. I entered a value of “1” for the first performance’s tracks and “2” for the second, and voila! Now the two performances are separately and properly displayed. [FYI, the two performances were by two artists and two symphonies, with twenty years of separation between them; interesting to compare.]

So, tip of the hat to you, Roon. Nicely anticipated feature!

[Dick_Vliek]

Now I’m curious…what cd is that?

[John_V]

Simon Rattle Conducts Debussy and Ravel, a 5CD set, EMI Classics.

[joel]

I assume that you are referring to the Piano Concerto in D Major on disc 5?

[Klaus_Kammerer1 (Klaus)]

unfortunately it doesn‘t work the other way round: grouping together a work that is interrupted by other works…

see this thread

Not consecutively appearing multi-part works and performance count

I have a notable number of albums which contain multi-part works where the parts of the work appear not consecutively - out of artistic intent I guess. It’s quite common with choral music albums and also with albums focussing on an instrument and the works written for it. Roon regularly fails to understand that those parts are all from the same performance of the work. Instead it “messes around” with the performance count. To illustrate two examples: A Classical one [Distributed%20Multipa…