Ban an artist from matching on music import

Support Metadata
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I’m a big fan of the jam band Goose. I tend to buy most of their shows on Bandcamp. Unfortunately, when I import these shows, Roon almost always matches them with the Belgian electronic group GOOSE. I have to go in and manually edit each album and track to fix the primary artist.

Is there a fix for this? Can I ban GOOSE from being matched to imported music? Or somehow get Roon to inspect the MusicBrainz metadata (which I add to each track via Picard) and choose the correct band? It’s a bit annoying.

2

Roon uses MusicBrainz data, so the artist should be correctly identified when the release is added to Music brain.

However, I notice some Goose releases under GOOSE, so there may be an artist equivalence issue. Moving to Support > Metadata.

3

To clarify, where are you seeing Goose releases under GOOSE? I don’t see any issues on MusicBrainz itself.

4

In Roon I see Goose releases (TIDAL) under GOOSE. My Goose recordings are under the correct artist.

5

Fascinating.

For context, I haven’t seen any issues with studio albums. Just live albums, which are typically not on non-nugz streaming services (except for special releases). I don’t think Roon knows anything about these albums — I typically add them the day after the show. It’s just doing a text search and assigning them to the wrong artist. I just wish Roon would prioritize artists already in my library when it’s making a match that’s not in its database already.

6

Since you’re adding the releases to MusicBrainz, Roon should identify them correctly. Are the marked as Unidentified in Roon?

Since Roon synchronises with Music Brains every day or so, you may want to wait a short while and then try to re-identify them.

7

They download directly to my local music directory, and then I update them in Picard, which also renames them based on the fixed album name. I haven’t tried the re-identify after a day or two, I will try that.