This is a minor annoyance that’s been bothering me for some time.
Many reissue albums have extra tracks, for which additional track information is provided at the end of the song title (“bonus track”, “mono version”, “Live at XXX”, etc.), but all this information disappears once the album is added to the library.
Is this intentional by Roon design? Is there an option to disable this unwanted “removal” of information?
The two screenshots below show Traffic’s “Mr. Fantasy” album tracks (10 tracks in original release) before and after adding to the library.
How have you set global import track settings? Prefer file or prefer roon?
I have it set to prefer roon and that retains bonus information. You can experiment by editing one of your example tracks (three dots → edit → metadata preference → title → prefer roon.
Setting this switch globally will change your entire library which you may or may not want and if you have a large library will take a long time.
Yes, it solves the problem. Thanks! Since it disappears upon adding to library, I assumed that I should prefer file. It’s counter-intuitive.
(2 hours later) After the global setting, now they are fixed nicely, but sometimes too much, like regular tracks are followed by “Album version”. Of course these are tracks originally included in the album!!! Duh. I guess one can’t have a cake and eat it too…
Yes. There is a lot of very repetitious information. My pet hate is every single track being marked “Remastered” when the album title itself has already been marked as Remastered. I can only imagine these details are a quite minority taste. I would prefer to switch off this type of visual clutter or at least have some control over it.
