OS: Microsoft Windows 11 pro
CPU: Intel Core i9 13900KF
RAM: 64GB
Networking Gear & Setup Details
N/A
Connected Audio Devices
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Number of Tracks in Library
3,127 tracks
Description of Issue
As stated in the title, I noticed that on music files that have a “//” in the music file’s metadata (more specifically, in the “Artist” tag; I use this to separate artists), Roon adds a “¥$” to the artists in the song/track. No other music playing software registers a “¥$” as an artist with this setup that I’ve been utilizing for years. A screenshot is attached that shows what I am talking about.
Yes, I added the tag delimiter “//”. After referencing the article provided, I see that “/” is considered safe. Would there be any reason why “//” breaks Roon’s artist handling?
Hi @Joshua_Alarcon,
Thanks for writing in to let us know about this issue. Please post a screenshot of the file info for one of the affected tracks. You can follow these steps to find it.
I don’t see how their presence could produce the symptoms you describe, but the presence of semicolons in the filename surprises me. It’s evidently (mostly) working, but seems odd - and could confuse some code, even if Roon is fine with it.
Attempting to alleviate the issue, I made changes to the filenames for this entire album such that I replaced the semicolon ( ; ) with two dashes ( – ) used to separate the track #, song name, album, etc. Unfortunately, the result is still the same; before taking this screenshot, I made sure to
Completely close Roon after editing the album’s filenames
Opened Roon back up, went to the applicable album, clicked the 3 dots on the album, clicked edit, and both a) Rescanned the album, and b) Re-analyzed the album.
@Joshua_Alarcon Sorry to keep asking for more information but this is an odd case. Can you click on file tags as shown in your screenshot and post a screenshot of that as well?
@daniel Certainly. The only 2 file tags that did not come out in this screenshot are “TOTALTRACKS” and “TRACKNUMBER”, which I believe to be irrelevant for this matter. In case it isn’t they are “17” and “2” respectively.
Hey, I made the “Album Artist” tag a period on all my song files for one particular reason. Initially, I used to wipe out whatever was there, and leave it completely blank as I was unable to find an official ‘album artist’ for all of the albums I have in my library, and I hate the idea of only certain tracks having some of the metadata tags filled out. Thus, for uniformity, I decided to leave this particular metadata tag blank on all my song files. However for some reason Poweramp, an Android music player app, would still see some of the “Album Artist” metadata tag in some of the song files even though they showed up as blank in Mp3Tag (the software I use for tagging). After looking for workarounds, I found that simply including a character, such as a period, solved the issue for me. Since leaving that tag blank does not play nice throughout all of my music playing software, I compromised by adding a “.” for that tag in all my song files.
Employing your own idiosyncratic metadata tagging approaches will not work well with Roon. That is why the Mac Miller album in the first post of this thread is Unidentified to Roon.
You are correct. After removing that tag on all files, I see Roon handling everything just fine.
Edit: This is not actually the case. Roon still detects “.” as the Album Artist even after verifying it was actually removed, through a tag file editor, as well as verifying that the file modified date lines up with when it was changed. Roon persistently shows the previous (not blank) Album Artist tag for 154 albums.
