Is there any way to repair misidentified artists on compilations?
Here is an example from Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970. Disc 2 Track 2 is “Got Love” by the Front Line. Roon has decided that the Front Line is the same band as the Canadian industrial band, Front Line Assembly, which is pretty obviously wrong. I can find no way to correct this.
And, of course, there are bands who are more famous than the Front Line…
Is there anything that can be done about this? It seems like I should easily be able to manually correct the artist or clarify which artist is correct, but if there’s a way, I can’t find it.
Click the “…” menu of the track, click Edit, go to Credits and change it. (Edit: You may have to edit the album credits too)
Note: Make sure that before you do this you add an album to the Roon library where the correct artist is credited, if you don’t have one yet, else the artist won’t be found during credit editing.
If you know which artist is a false entry not assigned to the official artist page in roon, you can either mark the affected tracks subsequently using the ´Edit tracks > Remove credits´ function and remove everything that led to these ghost artists. If this does not help I recommend to edit the whole album and remove the fake one both in primary artists and credits.
Just stumbled upon a very strange example of split personality:
If you do not know which artist is right or wrong, you can search for the name, in this case Nirvana, mark all entries and hit ´Merge Artists´ choosing the primary entry as your preferred one.
Proper tagging of local files does prevent this problem in many cases. But that is not always the case so sometimes you have to either remove the fake artists or merge them with the correct one.
In rare cases there might be the bogus artist assigned solely as a primary artist to the album not appearing in credits so you might want to doublecheck that or erase it.
Easiest check is to perform a text search for the fake artist. If roon cannot find any match, you can be sure to have removed all connections to your library.
I found it easier to mark one track and subsequently choosing ´select all´ to edit all tracks of an album simultaneously.
Or select several tracks with Ctrl (multiple tracks) or Shift (a range of tracks), depending on which / how many tracks there are to edit. (When using a computer). Just sayin’ for @Trent_Reynolds
