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An album from the same artist that contains songs from different years (Like a Greatest Hits)
Albums with different artists from different years.
Only if you crate a meaningful (to you) distinction for yourself and implement it using Roon’s Tags . The third party metadata providers data Roon uses don’t make such a distinction. Or better put: The metadata tag COMPILATION used is of the binary (On/Off; Yes/No; True/False) type. Read also:
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.
How should mix (DJ compilation) albums be tagged? See this album as an example:
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Currently below the title it has the artists Paul Oakenfold and Mike Cosford. Going into “edit album”, it has them both separately as “primary artist links”. The “album artist” is listed as “Paul Oakenfold & Mike Cosford”.
Now, what is the correct way to tag this? Instinctively I would set the album artist as “various artists”. I would change the title to “The House Collection - Mixed by Paul Oakenfold & …
Rugby
September 28, 2024, 2:41pm
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I would create my own tags and apply them.