Hey @Dr_Dave_Barr – let me see if I can help here.
Some example here might help – instructions for posting screenshots are at the end of this post. I’d recommend posting screenshots of any albums that don’t seem to be showing up in the right place.
This isn’t really how Roon works. In other music apps, you can pretty much put whatever information you want in each field, and the app just displays whatever you type in.
Roon actually understands your music, so the name under the album is going to mean “the person who performed the music on this album” and the names in the composer field are going to mean “the people who wrote the music being performed on this album”.
In Roon it’s easy to find Beethoven’s page and see all the compositions he wrote in his lifetime. And it’s easy to go to the album browser and view all the albums on which his music was performed.
But Beethoven didn’t release any albums in his lifetime, so Roon isn’t going to work the way you’re thinking. Many people find this to be quite different from the apps they’ve used in the past, but I’d encourage you to keep an open mind. Many apps are designed for pop music, which forces classical fans to come up with their own systems and workaround in order to find some Beethoven.
In Roon, the name under the album should roughly translate to “the name on the front of the CD”, but it should still be easy to find the performances of Beethoven’s work in your library. If you have questions or feedback, please let us know.
Thanks!