Better handling of Compilations and Soundtracks

[BlackJack]

I have many compilation albums in my library yet they largely remain invisible because they’re hidden among other album titles or located under V if I ask Roon to sort them in that way.

Aren’t they always under V(arious Artists)?

Name for Compilation Sorting: Use Album Title versus Use "Various Artists" [Ticket in]

Are my following assumptions for the Name for Compilation Sorting option in Settings > General correct? Use “Various Artists”: Group all Various Artists Compilations in Album/Artist view under Artist Various Artists and then sort by date. Use Album Title: Use Album Title as Artist for Various Artists Compilations in Album/Artist view. At least I can’t spot any difference in the display of Albums in Album/Artist view under the current version 1.5 (build 339) of Roon. It’s always the same for m…

What about the other anomalies that Roon considers a compilation? It seems to me that Roon may need to differentiate between Various Artists albums and Artist compilations?

Compilation vs collection vs anthology vs compendium

I agree these are potentially interesting distinctions (particularly Anthology vs Compilation) but from what I can tell none of our metadata sources make this distinction, unfortunately. Is this something you guys have seen elsewhere? Are there are any sources we might be able to use to populate this data automatically? If this is a something you’re looking to enter manually using Tags is probably the way to go for now, but we need to be able to automatically populate this data if we’re going …