For the sake of discussion assume:
How should such an album be tagged to get the best exploration outcome in Roon? Does it matter whether I tag
albumartist=“artist a / artist b”
artist=“artist”
artist=“artist b”
vs:
albumartist="artist a"
albumartist="artist b"
artist="artist"
artist="artist b"The best would be a multi artist entry so that both artists show up in a search
Eg jrIver allows a list entry for artist, so an album will show up for both artists
I don’t think Roon will handle multiple albumartist tags, so your first option is the correct one.
I also use artist sort tag with multiple values
I’m not sure of the Roon specifics but this is probably also going to depend on the audio format you are using. Its quite normal to have multiple ARTIST fields in a Flac file, but for ID3 (as used by Wav/Aif/Mp3) you have a single ARTIST field that is null separated for multiple artists if using ID3v24 and ‘/’ separated if using ID3v23.
May also depend if collaboration between two distinct artists who don’t usually work together (e.g Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush) , or if two artists that are known as a group e.g Simon & Garfunkel
Some input from the Roon guys on this would be helpful.
Agreed. Simon & Garfunkel were a band in the sense it wasn’t just Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel having solo careers and occasionally collaborating. The started as S&G and then went their separate ways
My files are FLAC so use vorbiscomments and my tagger writes
Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon\\Art Garfunkel as
albumartist=Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel and
albumartist=Paul Simon
albumartist=Art Garfunkel
respectively.
Above is how Roon handles albums it’s able to identify. When it’s unidentified it interprets Paul Simon / Art Garfunkel as a literal string, so I guess tagging should be
albumartist=Paul Simon
albumartist=Art Garfunkel
when Roon doesn’t recognise the album.
