For difficult to match albums for which a musicbrainz or rovi (allmusic) ID is known it would be cool if a search for that ID would be possible.
It might even work by entering something like mb:<musicbrainz-release-id>
or rovi:mw999999
into the artist or album title field in the identification window so no additional GUI stuff would be needed. What would be nice: if Roon would strip the the - from the musicbrainz ID if necessary, so copy & paste would be easier (from the exports it looks like Roon doesn’t use the - internally in musicbrainz IDs).
This would help when one knows the album exists in one of the metadata sources but the current credits (from file tags) will not bend to what Roon has in it’s database as identifiers.
I understand that Roon uses musicbrainz.org to identify albums, but I have encountered several occasions where I cannot find the album when I use the “Identify album” function. I have the release ID. Why not enter it directly or read it from the metadata (I use Jaikoz, so I am sure that the MusicBrainz album ID is there) instead of scrolling pages of album covers and trying to match the number of tracks?
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks!
If the album ID isn’t registered for a release, the album cannot be identified. The easiest way to handle this is to use the ripper software to submit the ID to Musicbrainz. These edits are usually accepted automatically.
If Jaikoz can’t identify the release using Musicbrainz, the best approach is to submit the disk ID to Musicbrainz, and then rescan the disk. Doing this will pull all of the correct release information from Musicbrainz, and the release will be identified correctly in Roon.
If Jaikoz doesn’t have submit feature you can use Picard. I use DBPowerAmp and SoundJuicer, and both have the submit feature.
Time and Time again I get albums that Roon point black refuses to match to the correct version, so I either have to manually edit to get the match or just have to force it to match the wrong version and live with a non-contiguous album as usually the track count is different to the version. I have had a number of albums currently where Roon wont see the version in MusicBrainz at all. If Roon would support reading and using MusicBrainz id’s contained in the Metadata it would help here to match. These days I add this to all my albums and it works really well in other apps like Plex and it finds a match using this every time.
The following is my current procedure.
Before importing the files into Roon, I manually edited the metadata using Jaikoz to edit the tags on the FLAC files, including the release ID from MusicBrainz. I also manually add some specific tags for Roon.
Despite that, I sometimes have to edit the album in Roon manually. I have noticed that even if the release ID information is in the file metadata, Roon ignores it.
I’d have a close look at the tags as some ripping software and taggers mess up FLAC (Vorbis) tags, and either leave ID3 tags or convert them incorrectly. Since processing my library with Picard and Metaflac, issues with identification, including track, work, and part naming irregularities have gone.
But I agree, making use of MUSICBRAINZ_ALBUMARTISTID would be beneficial.
