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This is the “correct” entry with a bio. It is found by searching for Zhou Xuan, Hsuan Chow, and for 周璇:
The other one has an extensive discography but no bio:
Have you made any edits to this content in Roon?
At first when writing this I thought that no, but now I realize that long ago already merged several other duplicated ones into the main one because it is all a mess:
However, I cannot merge these two although albums by both are in the library, there is no merge button after selecting both artists.
Is the album identified in Roon?
Yes
Is this content from local files, TIDAL, or Qobuz?
Mostly Qobuz and Tidal, though I have a few local albums
Description of the issue
It seems to me that there are several issues. Foremost, the existence of two different artists with FirstName-LastName and LastName-FirstName.
Second, searching for 周璇 shows Zhou Xuan in the quick results,
but then Hsuan Chow in All Results.
Searching for Zhou Xuan brings up only one of them:
Searching for Hsuan Chow or Chow Hsuan brings up all versions
The correct Chinese name is Chow/Zhou first as this is the last name and Chinese uses LastName-FirstName. Note that the bio writes it like this but the Roon name doesn’t:
I don’t know if this has something to do with the Languages for Artist Name settings, but I have only Latin character languages selected there, no Chinese.
Plus, it would probably good to have consistent romanization (Pinyin, Traditional) across Roon names and bios, and ideally a choice because people form Taiwan and Mainland don’t agree.u
