Artist Equivalence Issues

I have a local artist named David Marks which Roon is confusing with David Marks from the Beach Boys. How does one separate them?

Nirvana the 90s grunge band and the 60s uk psychedelic band are grouped together.

Thanks @anon94274355 Nirvana edit made.

1 Like

Blue Murder is being identified as the folk version when my albums should be for this band instead.

Dirty Looks the 80s metal band is being identified as the 70s band. My albums are for the 80s band.

The Detroit 70s proto-punk band Death does not have its own listing/bio and the albums are mixed in with the Florida Death Metal band Death.

Edit made for Death.

@joel thanks for the edit. Even through both are split now they both have the same artist photo and artist bio.

They shouldn’t be split yet, so I’m not sure what’s going on there. Can take up to a week to filter through to your library; less once the metadata are live and you are just browsing.

This is not the Tony Thompson I’m looking for :wave:

The appearances are of this Tony Thompson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Thompson_(drummer)
But the bio and info are of this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Thompson_(singer)


The albums above belong to this band https://templesmusic1.bandcamp.com/


And this one is third artist (I think).

OK The artist’s name is Roy Rogers. The first CD I noticed this problem with is entitled “Slide of Hand”. I have seven other Roy Rogers CDs that have the same problem. The Roy Rogers info displayed is for the 1940’s - 1960’s cowboy actor/singer. I don’t have any of this Roy Rogers’ music.

If there is any other info I can add let me know.

Curt

Roy Rogers edit made as it was very easy; according to the blues guy’s bio, he was actually named after the cowboy… just to make my life difficult :smiley:

1 Like

Fink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink_(singer) and German band Fink https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fink_(Band) need to be de-merged.

The 60s band Monks are linked together with the late 70s band The Monks. The 60s band are also called “The” Monks which is incorrect.

Thanks @anon55914447 and @anon94274355.

There was already an equivalence edit for Fink, but looks like TIDAL messed us up. Edited the edit.

I’ve sorted out (The) Monks and, unfortunately, had to decouple TIDAL from the equivalence as they have both bands albums under the same artist ID. Hmm…

I suggest a local rename of Monks to remove the “The” where applicable.

The country singer Kitty Wells is linked to the bio for Patsy Cline.

@stephen_condon Ugh, thanks. The perils of equivalencing: Rovi has ascribed (incorrectly IMO) the a.k.a. “The Queen of Country Music” to Patsy Cline, hence the confusion. I’ve made an edit and asked Rovi to remove the a.k.a.

José Feliciano shows a picture of Cheo Feliciano and that he has died in Izalco. But José is still alive.

Thanks @joel. When I edit the artist name to just Monks, now one album shows up in Main Albums and one in appearances and secondly when you play the album Black Monk Time you get “Monks, Monks” - I’ve noticed this’s for many, many albums and imo looks very messy.