Another Merging artists question. The option does not appear for me

Content you’re reporting an issue with

One of the albums this behaviour occurs for me:

Have you made any edits to this content in Roon?

No. Other than fiddling with it to try to get the option of merging to appear, but I made sure to revert to standard after trying.

Is the album identified in Roon?

Yes

Is this content from local files, TIDAL, or Qobuz?

Local. But the content is often available on Qobuz as well. Here is a screenshot of how I tag locally with flac files:

Screenshot of import settings

Could the issue arrive from the merging of Roon and file options?

  • If so, how do I correct this issue with already imported albums.
  • If so, why does this happen with some artists on the album and not all.

Description of the issue

Merging artists, I have waded through a lot of topics so far that address this feature, but I can’t quite get hands around it. In advance; apologies if the question has been asked and answered, I haven’t found it.

I have always tagged very thoroughly, in the multiple Artist fashion in MP3tag (see screenshot way above) and I often run into double artists in Roon. As for instance with this Brecker album and the drummer Bill Stewart. Clicking both artist and merging is unfortunately not an option, because the button to merge does not appear (see screenshot below).

I have tried some options given in other threads concerning merging; like adding the Qobuz album (mine is local of course) to my library, adding the artist as Album Artist in the Album Editor, but have yet to discover the “merge artist” button appearing. I have tried a lot of my local albums where this behaviour occurs and can’t resolve it anywhere.

Any tips on how to procede are very welcome, thank you.

Bill Stewart one (with a focus on local files):

Bill Stewart two (all local):

I don’t know if this is the correct way of reporting this a solved issue, but here is what I did for future reference. Case closed.

Apparantly, I had to go to the main screen, choose artists, filter/focus on local files, select both bills and then presto; the button appeared.

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