Georg Friedrich Händel or George Frederick Handel

[Thomas_Reimer]

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### Content you're reporting an issue with Dear all, since the last 2 versions I see issues regarding the composer „Georg Friedrich Händel: all my music is tagged with the German version of Handel‘s name. This worked well in the past. An example: I have a box „Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Complete Recordings“. This contains also some works by Handel. I tagged the composer „Georg Friedrich Händel“ in the file - but Roon now lists the composer „Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart“. May be because Händel is not an English name and Mozart‘s works come immediately after the one‘s of Handel in this box. Is there an easy way to resolve this?

Kind regards
Thomas

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[jamie]

Hey @Thomas_Reimer,

Thank you for getting in touch with your question. We’d be happy to take a look. This is quite some set of music from DG! The German spelling of Händel shouldn’t be causing what you’re seeing. But Roon may have had some trouble identifying the set.

Can you please look at your album page for this collection and tell us if this set is identified in Roon? Also are you preferring Roon’s tags or your own for this set?

The answers to these questions while provide us with a great starting point for getting this sorted out for you. I’ll be watching for your reply. Thanks!

[Thomas_Reimer]

Thank you for your reply.
Yes - the album has been identified by Roon.
Regarding the composer tag: yesterday I tried all 3 options: Roon, file, Roon&file. But the result was always the same: the Händel works were assigned to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Then I added „George Frideric Handel“ to the composer tag, which then looked like „Georg Friedrich Händel; George Frideric Handel“. Then the Händel works in Roon showed the composers: „Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel“.
After removing „Georg Friedrich Händel“ from the composer tag, the Händel works were (correctly) only assigned to „George Frideric Handel“ in Roon.
Some remarks: in the majority of my files I am only using the composer tag to indicated the composer - not the artist tag additionally.
In other files with Händel works the composer tag is using the German version „Georg Friedrich Händel“, which Roon seems to correctly map to George Frideric Handel.
I would prefer to keep using „Georg Friedrich Händel“ as composer.

[jamie]

Hey @Thomas_Reimer,

Thank you for this additional information. So, just to confirm:

1. When using Georg Friedrich Händel only Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart appears in the Composer tag

2. When using Georg Friedrich Händel; George Frideric Handel then Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel appeared as Composer

3. Finally, when using George Frideric Handel the Composer block correctly displays only George Frideric Handel

This is quite strange! Is Handel or Handël entered in any other metadata field? Can you post a screenshot of your album page here as well? I’ll continue to investigate this and get back to you.

[Thomas_Reimer]

Here is the album page . The album consists of 55 single disks. Disk 10-12 are the works from Handel.
In my tags only the composer tag contains Handel.

[Thomas_Reimer]

Today I found a further issue: I filtered my albums for the composer „Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart“ and as a result I found also the albums related to „George Frideric Handel“ - it seems that all albums for which I set the composer „Georg Friedrich Händel“ are now mapped to both composers „George Frideric Handel“ and „Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart“. Now my database in Roon looks really strange.

[Thomas_Reimer]

Here an example from the albums after filtering for composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The albums on the right side belong all to Handel (only) and should not appear.

[jamie]

Hi @Thomas_Reimer,

Thank you for getting back in touch with your additional observations. We’re investigating on our end and have some insights to what may be causing what you’re seeing.

[jamie]

Hey @Thomas_Reimer,

Just wanted to let you know where’s making some adjustments soon that will correct what you’re seeing. You shouldn’t have to do anything, except wait for a bit. The fix should take effect in a number of weeks.

[joel]

@jamie

The fix should take effect in a number of weeks.

To clarify, this is because it takes a week to get MusicBrainz edits approved, which is what we had to do here. It will then take up to a week following MusicBrainz approval for it all to be sorted out in your library.