There are decent work arounds, like creating smart playlists based on labels, or using tags. Most labels are not as significant imo, but i have set up bookmarks, smart playlists and tagged ECM, ACT and 4AD as three examples.
Out of curiosity, why is the label important when you’re browsing albums?
And, if you really think label should be made more visible, then create a feature suggestion and vote!
The album folder, e.g., /media/martin/multimedia/music/collection/New Wave _ Post Punk/Blondie [a16655]/Parallel Lines (Chrysalis, 72435-33599-2-8) [r1441500] {CD}.
Roon reads what’s inside parenthesis and square brackets. The curly braces are used for populating ROONALBUMTAG via a script. In this instance, the media format.
In my experience, a label name is often more telling about the sound of an album than the genre tags. 4AD, for example, or Sub Pop, says more than indie rock.
Ah, yep. But if we are talking about music discovery (which you point at), then Roon will be quite bad at identifying labels (only usable for library content).
I tend to use Qobuz own app for label-oriented search.
There are feature requests regarding this i think!
You could try my SongKong tagger, this adds the label directly to the metadata and Roon can read this metadata, SongKong can be used on libraries of any size.
I would also love for the label to be more prominently displayed. I think really what Roon needs is the ability for users to make themes where they can choose what is displayed and where.