Import of album with multiple album artists results in "Various Artists" album

papa.jay · October 19, 2019, 12:45pm

Hi,
I am experiencing strange behaviour with one of my albums. The album is stored in the local library and I am using file tags to import into the roon database.

The album artist tag stored in the files looks like this

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After the import Roon shows me this:

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When importing albums with similar tags Roon normally displays all the artists seperated by “/” (slashes). Any clues what could trigger this behaviour ?

Any help apprechiated.

pj

anon90297517 · October 19, 2019, 1:34pm

You are using a ‘,’ (comma) as the delimiter between de different artist.
As a default Roon uses ‘;’ (pount comma) as delimiter.

You can see this in Settings - Library - Import Settings (bottom of the screen)

I do not know if Roon accepts another delimeter than ‘;’.

Not sure it will help, but maybe you can try 2 things:

add a ‘,’ in the delimiter field at Settings - Library - Import Settings
if that does not work, change the ‘,’ in your album artist metadata field with a ‘;’

No garantee, but worthwhile trying I think
Dirk

papa.jay · October 19, 2019, 2:20pm

Hi @anon90297517,

thanks for your reply. I already added additional delimiters and they work fine with other albums.

BlackJack · October 19, 2019, 2:32pm

@vova once posted that Roon uses VA when there are more than 5 Artists. Maybe it’s 5 or more?

The album is listed with 5 primary artists on allmusic.com and, as your screenshot shows, identified by Roon. So the change to VA seems to come from Roon’s metadata service.

papa.jay · October 19, 2019, 2:55pm

Thanks for pointing that out… that’s probably the reason…

Greg · October 19, 2019, 8:13pm

Have you tried editing the album, selecting Identify Album? From there, click None of these look right and them type in a search for Arne Domnerus.

See if that gives you the results you’re looking for.

Cheers, Greg

papa.jay · October 20, 2019, 10:12am

Just found another album in my collection with six different album artists

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This one is displayed exactly as I would expect it and as I was used to see it.

papa.jay · October 20, 2019, 10:16am

Hi @Greg,
tried the route you proposed but I always end up with the same result.
pj

BlackJack · October 20, 2019, 1:13pm

I moved the discussion over to #support:metadata-issues as it seems more appropriate.

dylan · October 21, 2019, 1:16pm

Hi @papa.jay,

I reached out to our metadata provider about this one. I’ll let you know when we hear back from them. Thanks for the report.

dylan · October 30, 2019, 11:53pm

Hi @papa.jay,

Our metadata provider has let us know that they have corrected this today. Please give this about a week or two to be reflected within Roon. Once you see the change on your end please mark this post as the solution.

Thanks again for your report!

papa.jay · November 19, 2019, 4:58pm

Hi @dylan,
no changes on my end. Still seeing this release like this:

papa.jay · January 25, 2020, 3:00pm

hi @dylan,
this album is still not listed correctly.

In my files the artist and album artist tags look like this:

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Can you take another look into this ?