artist disambiguation is really an issue in Roon, so I want to revive this thread and start with an example:
Artist disambiguation is definitely an issue given the dependency on third party data, the quality of which is pretty iffy sometimes. Roon has been so successful with Valence for images, I really wonder if there is some opportunity to put a Roon engineered, crowd sourced layer between the third party and the end user experience to disambiguate artists.
If the majority of users that logged in thought that the artist Cream was comprised of three fellows named Eric, Jack, and Ginger, maybe the other artists listed under that name could be flagged back to the data providers to be corrected.
Just a thought. It’s not an easy problem. Another alternative would be just to be able to click an album and have an option to never show it anywhere.
Analogy for the above might be GMail options “Report Spam” or “Report Spam and Unsubscribe” in our case might be “Not the expected artist” or “Not the expected artist and never show this album again”.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. As always, we appreciate the heads up and your assistance.
I just wanted to update you that we’ve reached out directly to TIDAL and Qobuz to notify them of these artist equivalence mistakes. Please understand that we can’t make any promises regarding a timeline for corrections when coordinating with our streaming partners. They generally make corrections fairly quickly.
If you don’t see a change in a few weeks please let us know.
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