· None of the above quite fits
· None of these quite match
· Metadata issue - broken composition groupings on album
· BT Smart Hub 2, Roon server (Mac Mini) directly wired to hub
Album is Mahler: The Symphonies & Song Cycles by Bernard Haitink & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and is identified in Roon. I can’t see anything wrong with the track names that would lead me to believe that editing them would help. (I have had success with this in the past with unidentified albums.)
Hey @MalcolmP17,
Thanks for writing in and for sharing your report! Looking at your screenshots, I can see the issue clearly. The Symphony No. 2 movements (tracks 5–13) are being grouped correctly under a composition, but tracks 3 and 4 (“Feierlich und gemessen…” and “Stürmisch bewegt”) appear to be floating loose, they’re movements of Symphony No. 1 but aren’t being pulled into a composition group.
First, check what Roon thinks the composition is. Click on one of the orphaned tracks (e.g. track 3) and see if it links to a composition at all. If it does but is ungrouped, that points to a Roon metadata database issue rather than a track name problem.
Then, since it’s already identified, try forcing a fresh identification:
If the track links to no composition at all, you can manually merge it:
Also worth checking - the fact that tracks 3 & 4 have no “Performed by” credits shown (unlike tracks 5–13) is interesting. Roon may not have matched them to the composition metadata at all, possibly because this compilation release has inconsistent Rovi/MusicBrainz data for those specific tracks.
We’ll be monitoring for your reply, thanks, Malcolm!
Thanks for the reply.
No luck so far sadly.
Re-identifying the album hasn’t fixed the broken compositions.
No change from ensuring ‘Prefer Roon’ is selected as the metadata preference.
The tracks 3 & 4 on my first screenshot are already identified as part of composition Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major (“Titan”) and do have performer credits.
The tracks that are not identified as part of compositions aren’t shown in the compositions view to merge them:
The tracks that have no visible credits may be down to them being just the orchestra and conductor - no choirs or orchestras to be credited on those tracks. (?)
This is probably no longer an issue, if unresolved, as I took a copy of the files, edited the metadata and split it into (I think) 12 separate albums aligned with the original vinyl releases. They are mostly unidentified, but all the compositions are correctly structured.
Probably stand down on this one - although there needs to be an easy way to grab a bunch of tracks on an album and hit a button to say this is composition and then link it to a composer and work manually, without studying the dark arts of mucking around with metadata.
Hey @MalcolmP17,
Thanks for the update, and I’m glad to hear you were able to get things sorted out!
That’s an excellent request - I’d certainly share it over in the #feature-request category of community as it’s actively monitored by our development and product teams.
Happy listening 
