In my local CD ripped library (properly tagged files), I have albums from both “Alan Parsons” as a solo artist and “The Alan Parsons Project”.
The Artists section shows both “Alan Parsons” and “The Alan Parsons Project” - good.
The problem is when I go to “Alan Parsons” all albums by “The Alan Parsons Project” are listed as well. I do not want them listed here - how do I achive this, please help.
I think we need to know exactly what the tags say and what the credits in Roon say (as listed in Edit > Credits).
I have similar cases where I have a solo artist who also worked in bands (sometimes different band names, sometimes “XY Band” where XY is the artist), and typically the discography shows the solo works first and then has separate sections labeled “with …”.
@Suedkiez Yea that is what I am trying to find out - what tags or credits will separate albums. I already tried Primary Artist credit but it will not separate the albums.
I have album artist and artist tags set to Alan Parsons for his solo work, and The Alan Parsons Project for his project works.
Examples:
Tags for “I Robot”
Artists
Artists - Alan Parsons
I Robot album view
There are 130 credits:
Edit: My import preferences for Title, Artist are set to prefer file.
I would like it if the albums were in a section “Albums With…” but they are listed under albums
Maybe because you have the Primary Artist Links and the Primary Artist credit for the APP album set to AP? I dunno, but maybe try without?
OK, but what is the meaning and use of Primary Artist? I already have Album Artist properly set in the tags.
What am I doing wrong with the tags?
Edit: And more importantly - how did Roon decide to list all “The Alan Parsons Project” albums under Alan Parsons as a solo artists?
I take it that the primary artist is the most important, central artist on the album. Like, primary 
At least if it is set on the album level - because if I put 2 different primary artists on the album, then I would expect Roon to treat both as the central artist on the album, on an equal level.
I think the Album Artist is just the label that appears on the album. There is an interrelationship between the Album Artist and the Primary Artist Links regarding how it gets displayed, but I am not sure if Album Artist has an effect beyond that.
E.g., this is how I think this works, using The Beatles’ Help! as an example:
gives:
If I change Album Artist:
it shows like this:
but that does not make Help! appear in the Stones discography:
However if I do this:
then it does this:
So if I want to remove “The Alan Parsons Project” albums from Alan Parsons solo works, then I have to remove Primary Artist tag? I don’t recall putting in such a tag, and somehow I am not finding such a tag in the 3rd party editor I am using…
Did Roon fill-in this for me? I am surprised then - Roger Waters is the lead in Pink Floyd - why aren’t Pink Floyd albums listed under his Artist view, but they are listed under “Appearances in my library”?
Oh well, I will fix it in Roon then. It is settled.
While you were writing, I arrived at the same conclusion because it shows the same for me and these are all streaming albums and none of that is in my library, edited, etc.:
I don’t know if you can override this apart from editing it in Roon, because at least I cannot see a setting for album credits in Settings > Library > Import settings.
If you have to edit it in Roon, you can at least multi-select all affected albums and remove the offending Primary Artist (and Primary Artist Link) once for the whole selection.
Solved by removing Alan Parsons from “Primary Artist Links” and from Credits.
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