Collection album shows up as lots of little mini albums

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I have a rip of “Best Loved Christmas Carols” by the King’s College Choir, Cambridge. I ripped it via XLD, and I have XLD setup to use //[tracks] if the genre is choral, classical, etc.

Almost every track on this album is a separate composer, so I have things like:
trad_13th_century_english/best_loved_christmas_carols/
r._r._terry/best_loved_christmas_carols/

When I put this in the library, Roon split these up as separate albums (all with the correct artwork, etc), but didn’t “recognize” them as part of one album. This means I have about 25 copies of this album each with a few tracks.

Is there a way to tell Roon to take collections like this and aggregate them as a single album? I have a similar problem with a collection of 10 disks “The Minnesota Orchestra at 100” retrospective.

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Hi @Christopher_Liljenst,

Take a look at this article for best practices for box sets.

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Thank’s Dylan - that works for the Minnesota Orchestra at 100 set, but doesn’t address the single CD’s with different composers. Is there anything I can do WITHIN roon to coalesce the different ‘mini’ albums into one? My only other option is to use various artists, or have performance groups replace the composer as “artist” - neither of which is very meaningful in the underlying library.

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Hi @Christopher_Liljenst,

You can definitely merge them in Roon — Check out these articles and let me know if that helps:

https://kb.roonlabs.com/Fix_Track_Grouping

https://kb.roonlabs.com/Merge_Albums