How to merge composers

[Gilles_Rousseau]

Hello,
This is my first request for support as I am discovering and testing Roon right now.
I tries to do a search and couldn’t find the answer to my question.
When scanning my library, Roon identified twice the same composer:

I would like to merge both. I tries to edit the first one so that the name matches exactly teh second one, hoping they would be merged, but it didn’t happen.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Select them both at the same time. A Merge button should appear top right

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

By the way, in most cases it’s possible to avoid the duplication by ensuring that the proper artist entry (with picture and biography) is already credited on an identified album that is already in your library.

Otherwise, a duplicate artist is usually created. You can merge them as described (which, by the way, only works if the proper artist is credited on an in-library album, anyway), but it’s a bit tidier and often more convenient to avoid the duplication to begin with.

I wrote up more detail in this post (and there’s even more in the other posts that are linked from there):

Valence Confusion Abounds

The thing is this: If an artist exists properly as a known artist in Roon (e.g., may have a Valence picture, a biography, and/or is credited on other albums), but no album where they are credited is already in your library, then Roon often (or always?) creates a duplicate artist when you import the local files. I think this can occur even if the newly imported album is identified, but definitely if it is unidentified. This duplicate artist will show under the name as it appears in the file tags…

[Gilles_Rousseau]

Thanks @Suedkiez for quick answer. I have read this in another post. The question is how I can select them both. I am on Roon on a Windows PC. Clicking on one of them opens the corresponding profile page. I have tried CTRL + click, SHIFT + click. I eventually found that Right Click is the way to go
Thansk a lot for your answer.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Right-click is fine, but CTRL-Click should work, too. Another option is a long left-click.

There are some neat tricks available, too:

Deleting ALL playlists at once

Welcome to the community! Go to Playlists, select one (on the PC with right-click, on mobile with a tap-and-hold). At left top, Select All. Click Delete: [image] On PC, you can also select ranges easily: Start range selection with a right-click Hold Shift and click the last in the range, all between will be selected. You can also select several ranges at once by repeating this with different range start points. Optionally, add to the multi-selection with additional clicks. On mobile, yo…

[Gilles_Rousseau]

@Suedkiez

CTRL-Click

Thanks again for your support. Just re-tried CTRL-Click, but definitely doesn’t work. This is a miss as it is a standard approach on Windows.
Long left click also works.
Thanks again.

[Geoff_Coupe]

@Gilles_Rousseau

Just re-tried CTRL-Click, but definitely doesn’t work.

It works once you have the first object selected with a Right-click. Subsequent Ctrl-clicks will add the selected objects to the selected list…

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Weird. It always worked for me. I currently only have Macs and it worked the last time I tried, but that was a few weeks and at least one update ago.

(Currently not at home, so I can’t try)

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Geoff_Coupe

It works once you have the first object selected with a Right-click.

I was pretty sure it worked to start the selection as well, but maybe I misremembered

[Gilles_Rousseau]

When you have the first object selected with Right-click, then any click works to add to the selection, even a simple left click. The trick is clearly to start with a right click :-). Anyway, thanks to all for your support. Very appreciated.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Geoff_Coupe @Gilles_Rousseau Just so you know, Ctrl and left click works for me on the Mac to start a multi-selection.

[Gilles_Rousseau]

Interesting that it is not working on a PC while this is standard across applications on Windows.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Roon is opinionated software - it doesn’t always follow Microsoft’s UI design guidelines for Windows applications