Fresh install, got a clean up question about merged albums

Hallo! I’ve recently redone my ROCK from scratch and everything is just now freshly imported. All good.

I sometimes have different versions of the same album. For example:

\AC/DC\Back in Black [CD]
\AC/DC\Back in Black [QBZ]
\AC/DC\Back in Black [VNL]\

These are all the same album, just from different sources (and I do have it set to recognize album versions in brackets).

Roon will sometimes merge all of those albums as one (in this case Back in Black), but with other similar albums it will display each one as an individual album. AC/DC - Live at Donington, for example:

\AC/DC\Live [CD]
\AC/DC\Live [HDT]
\AC/DC\Live [DVD]\

I’d like to see all my albums with multiple versions instead of being displayed as one album.

Is there a way to do that? It’s just weird 'cause sometimes it does this and sometimes it doesn’t, and I can’t figure out what makes it happen and what doesn’t.

Thanks.

I hope it groups them, not merge

Turn off version grouping. Settings > General > Browsing Preferences > Show hidden tracks and albums > Yes

(If you preferred version grouping, you would set this to no, and if some are not auto-grouped, then select the albums together > (…) button > Edit > Group alternate versions)

Show Hidden Tracks And Albums was already set to Yes.

And it’s a fresh install so I haven’t manually grouped anything on my own yet.

Weird, right?

Any example screenshots for what you are seeing?

Okay, I’ll try.

AC/DC Live comes up the way I want: all as individual albums.

Back in Black, Highway to Hell, and For Those About… all show up as just one album, even though there are three albums there, just like the Live one.

And thanks.

I have no idea what happened, but I came back to Roon after leaving it alone for a while and found that all the albums are now separate entities. I guess it just needed some time to work itself out? No idea. Anyway, never mind, it’s just dandy now. Yay!

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I’m kind of curious what the “E” on the top-left of the Back in Black albums mean. Those went away after a while. Weird.

Explicit language

can be controlled in settings:

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And I’m back. Roon has started merging albums again. It seems to be pretty random. Anyone know how to make it stop doing that?