Album Matching Issue

[Nick]

I have long had issues with album matching. The search function just does not work properly and never has. Latest example…

The album is in Tidal:

My CD rip has the same band name and similar title:

The identify album screen does not find the Tidal album. No idea what this album it finds actually is. The cover is from some other album, the album title is differen from mine and from Tidal, and none of the tracks match:

The manual identify album fails to find the Tidal album too:

Lastly, when I go view the Tidal discography for the band, there is no sign of the album that auto-match shows:

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

I can’t be of much help but some things that I notice:

@Nick

the album title is differen from mine and from Tidal

This grey one is a generic cover picture that is used for all unidentified albums. As your local album without the cover art is also listed as “unidentified”, there may be some confusion there.

@Nick

Lastly, when I go view the Tidal discography for the band, there is no sign of the album that auto-match shows:

The list that is shown in automatch or manual match comes from metadata services. These are generally albums that users have added to MusicBrainz. There is no guarantee that Tidal has them all for streaming, but they can be matched if you have a local copy

[Nick]

@Suedkiez

This grey one is a generic cover picture that is used for all unidentified albums. As your local album without the cover art is also listed as “unidentified”, there may be some confusion there.

I know the grey one is unidentified. That is the point. I’m trying to identify an album that I just ripped from CD.

@Suedkiez

The list that is shown in automatch or manual match comes from metadata services. These are generally albums that users have added to MusicBrainz. There is no guarantee that Tidal has them all for streaming, but they can be matched if you have a local copy

I’m aware of that. One of the sources of data is Tidal. Tidal has the album as shown in my post, yet Roon fails to either automatically or manually match it.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Nick

I know the grey one is unidentified. That is the point. I’m trying to identify an album that I just ripped from CD.

I didn’t understand that because you seemed to have written “The cover is from some other album”

@Nick

I’m aware of that.

Then I don’t understand why you were surprised that

@Nick

there is no sign of the album that auto-match shows

Sorry for trying to help. /done

[Nick]

@Suedkiez

Sorry for trying to help. /done

I guess you are not understanding the issue I’m reporting. It is a bug for @support. While it is nice of you to try to help others, it is not productive to jump in when you yourself say “I can’t be of much help” and then explain basic stuff to me.

[joel]

@Nick

One of the sources of data is Tidal. Tidal has the album as shown in my post, yet Roon fails to either automatically or manually match it.

We don’t currently use (and have never used) streaming service metadata for the identification of local content.

[Nick]

That is a shame because it is a terrible user experience when I can see the correct album in Roon yet can’t match to it (and instead get matched based on bad metadata).