Composer not found

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Lukas_Metzler Most likely your Roon didn’t find the proper existing CPEB artist entry during an import and created a duplicate. This happens, e.g., if an imported album with a credited artist/composer is not identified and you have no album in the library where the proper artist entry is already credited.

You can then add an album where the proper artist is credited, then search for CPEB. It should then find the proper and the duplicate entry. Select them both together and there should be a Merge button top right. Merge the duplicate into the proper entry.

The same thing was recently discussed here:

Roon does not recognise composers like Joseph Haydn

Hi, I hope someone can point me in the right direction to fix the issue i have. I am using Roon1.8, only local ripped files so no streaming services. I recently ripping a 11 CD-box 'the art of Beaux Arts Trio by Decca (sold many years ago by the Dutch newspaper NRC, see screenshot). After ripping all CDs with Exact Audio Copy (EAC) one or two discs where not recognised by EAC so i added all the metadata in the Flac files myself. Attached the Haydn metadata screenshot So far i did not make a…

Happened to me all the time, my approach is here (and everyone seems to eventually arrive at the same workaround)

@Suedkiez

• Add the metadata as tags to the files as well as you can.
• Before you import the album, ensure that you first add albums to the library from Qobuz/Tidal so that every artist from the to-be-imported local album is already credited on a streaming album. Then Roon usually finds and associates the artists from the new import correctly with the correct artist entries in the database.
• If the artists on the to-be-imported album are not yet represented in your library, it can happen that Roon duplicates them and creates a new artist stub with the same name, which isn’t linked to the proper artist entry.
• If different artists with the same name exist, Roon can sometimes pick the wrong one regardless. In this case edit/fix it within Roon. Just like before importing, ensure that an album with the proper artist credit is already in the library before starting to edit. Otherwise, Roon doesn’t find the artist during the editing, and if you create a new one because you think it does not yet exist, this becomes a separate artist stub.
• If you end up with duplicated stubs, you can merge the stub artist into the proper one (select both artists and click the Merge button that should appear top right), but I think it’s better to avoid this to begin with. It’s a PITA…
• I complained about it in this thread among other places