How does Roon define and differentiate the following:
Compilation
Collection
Anthology
Compendium
To my mind a compilation should consist of various artists, whereas a collection has a mixture of tracks by the same artist (but not an album). Anthology and compendium would be similar to collection in this regards.
Thanks.
Did anyone bother replying to this?
Flagging @support but as itâs a weekend maybe need to wait for someone to chime in. Maybe got missed. And maybe the OP forgot about it too?
Not forgotten! Not heard much the team recently so have just been waiting.
Roon more or less accepted that Apple never got that right so they seem to not have bothered themselves treating differnt things separated.
From scratch I would suggest to create so called TAGs within roon, one for each of the categories mentioned. (you could add another one for box sets aswell). And the benefit is that similar to genres you could flag the same album into multiple tag categories.
Got my samplers physically in a separated storage location.
\NASâŚ\samplers
which then allows me to do the following thing:
inside roon
Albums>Focus>Inspector>Storage Locations> ticking the samplers storage location
Press first album long
scroll to the last
shift press the last
press the 3 dots top left section
add to tag
press the + for a new tag
enter âsamplersâ for example
create
save
done
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 youâre 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 weâre going to make a change here.
You wonât manage to get this automated. Canât name a provider being accurate in these things.
Sampler vs. Compilation ⌠discogs if ever.
But when it comes to things like Anthologies, box sets and such like ⌠Iâd say no way to get this automated.
You could perhaps run some function trying to check if a compilation is more or less a summary of known albums, since thatâs what forms an anthology most times.
But the pitty is âmostâ times not âallâ times, which is then a major argument against trying to automate this.
In return itâs lots easier to differ between a compilation and a sampler as @extracampine explained. This is next to 100% failproven since adopted that way by next to any software I could name besides things to do with apple since they always do implementations differt at any cost, something also called âdefective by designâ.
Yes it needs to allow the user to enter or edit this information.
Keeping this thread alive. There should definitely be a way to distinguish between single and multiple artist compilations. The symbol that they use foir both only applies to the latter.