Hi,
I’ve just sent this directly to Roon support, but thought I would also post it here in case someone can help me figure out how this works.
I’ve been working quite a bit with Roon recently, trying to organize my music collection, and am slightly confused about how it handles metadata in some instances. For example:
In the included screenshot, you can see the File Info being displayed for the 1st track of an album. You’ll notice that I have included the “WORK” and “PART” tags (using metadata editing software) in my original file. I have circled the “WORK” tag in red. However, although I have set the “Multi-Part Composition Grouping” to “Prefer File” in both Roon’s main preferences and the album’s Edit window, you can see in the main window (also circled in red) that Roon is not displaying the work title that is set in the file’s “WORK” tag.
Why is that? I have successfully used the WORK tag in many albums previously, but this specific album just doesn’t want to use it.
Now, as a workaround, I can select “Go To Composition” from one of the tracks’ mini-menu and manually change the name of the work from there. This will then update the work’s name in the album’s main window. The problems here are:
1- I have to do this for every composition of a multi-disc box set, which is long and tedious.
2- Using the “Composition Editor” window to change the work’s name will update that name in every album that links to this paricular composition. Although this is not usually a problem, there are special instances where I would like different albums to display a slightly different name for the same work. The curious thing is that it sometimes does work exactly like that. I have several albums where I have changed a work’s name using the Composition Editor and that change is not reflected is the main album’s display (although the tracks still correctly link to the same composition). But for other albums, editing a work’s name in the Composition Editor will invarialby change that name in the main album display window, and you can’t avoid it. I don’t understand the discrepancy.
Any light you can shed on these issues and their inner workings would be much appreciated.
Thank you.