Display meta-data Comments

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Hello. I am new to Roon and currently I’m using a trial version that came with my new SOTM sms-200. (Shout out to Crux Audio for fantastic service!)

A large portion of my music collection consists of LPs which I’ve digitized. I have added comments to many of them with the itunes comments tag — like “This LP was a gift from Uncle Louis.” Or " Decca SXL xxxx" or “Tracks 1 and 5 are fantastic.” Etc.

Is there any way to view these comments in Roon, or will they be lost if I permanently decide to use Roon?

Thanks,
Ron

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I would love to see this integrated. Where had you stored the comments previously?

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Itunes metadata includes “Comments”. I have my remarks entered there. Other software that I use — JRiver and Audirvana Plus let me see these comments. Doesn’t Roon allow this?

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Roon does not touch the meta-data in your files; so that data will not be lost. However, at this time Roon does not display a comments field data.

If you want to make a Feature Request to display a comments field from Meta-Data, I can move this thread to that section.

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I’ve never found something for the whole album but you can get into comments through file tags on individual songs. Single song => View File Info => File Tags

Not the easiest way in and its not for the whole album.

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Yes, I would appreciate your doing this. I can’t speak for others, but being able to view comments would make Roon much more useful to me. Thanks!

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One more reason display of comments would be useful. Sometimes I search for an album via a path like label (RCA, Decca, Blue Note, etc.) -> Artist -> Album, where the first criterion is stored in ‘Comments’.

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  • 1 here for being able to display contents of Comments field, which I used extensively.
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Same general point others have made. It would be a great improvement to Roon if users could leverage ALL their meta tags, custom or standard…

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Any news regarding this topic/feature request?
I tend to use the comments field to copy all track data in info files for live-recordings for example.
This is since Roon won’t show the txt-file in the audio folder either.
But now since pdf files can be opened, why not txt as well or to somehow be able to show comments?

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I would like to be able to view these as well.

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Excellent idea!

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Reviving this topic. I think a comments field is a must. It’s the first real drawback to Roon that I’ve seen. For example: I’ve got the deluxe version the Deep Purple “Made In Japan”. It’s 5 CD’s, 1- old mix, 2 - new mix and 3-5 are the three different nights they recorded. The CD’s import into iTunes with the mixes and dates as the CD title. I didn’t like that, so I pasted those titles into the comments section and replaced it with the main title, spanning all 5 CD’s. It works great in iTunes, but Roon just displays it as the main title with 5 discs and now I don’t know what I’m listening to. If you’re still reading this, sorry for the hyper detail.

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In iTunes or iPhone’s music app, the lyrics tag is easier to display than the comment tag, so I put a comment on the lyrics tag. I want to be able to display lyrics tags in roon

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Roonlabs has plans to support embedded lyrics, see:

If the final implementation will support your use case is hard to predict …

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@anon47919701

Thanks!

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will be nice to have COMMENT tag in Focus search field

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I’m not really sure what you’re trying to achieve, but: I wonder if what you’ve in mind would work using ROONALBUMTAG / ROONTRACKTAG … maybe you could copy the metadata from the COMMENT tag to one of those with an external tagging application?

Just an idea.

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to be able to browse music based on COMMENT tag.
I have populated COMMENT tag for all my music (4985 albums) and I was using this on all previous systems for easy and fast browsing (self populating smart lists)

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Are those comments like keywords? Then it may work if you’d copy those from COMMENTS to ROONALBUMTAG.