Lack of metadata

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I bought Roon because of the promise of it’s metadata for exploring new artists and material. However, increasingly I find artists and albums for which there is no metadata at all. For instance:

Mostly Other People Do the Killing - 4 albums, no metadata for artist, and only one album with notes
Bremer/McCoy - 2 albums, no info at all
Sa Chen - no info
David Chesky - about half the albums have no info
Skeewiff - nothing

I’m sure my taste is off in the weeds with respect to other users, but that’s exactly the point, right? Without the metadata, Roon is pointless.

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Pointless? IMO you are being quite harsh on a new company and software which is only a month or so old. Why don’t you give the Roon team a little bit of time to develop and improve rather than just boldly complain.

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Yes, pointless to me. I’m perfectly capable of finding music by name on Tidal directly, Apple Music, or anywhere else. I bought Roon for the metadata, cross-referencing and liner notes – things you can’t get elsewhere.

I’m sorry if you see this as just complaining, but I’m not exactly in a position to fix the problem. I want to ensure that the Roon team understands that this is the #1 thing to get right.

4

That’s fine, but if you’ve read here in these forums it’s obvious that they are working on improving metadata and it is already a top priority.

5

I disagree about number 1 priority. In my humble opinion, I would like the work on adding new end points, headless operation, improving sound quality and fixing bugs interfacing with certain dac drivers in AISO mode first.

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