Hi Gang - I am experiencing an interesting anomaly on the multiple performances link, please see picture below. This is for the album Revolver by The Beatles and as you can see, the multiple performance link is showing up on the Lennon/McCartney songs but not for any written by George Harrison. In this example I have multiple versions of Revolver in my library and those are missing on the George songs. Same thing is happening on all of my Beatles albums for the George songs. Any known reason for this?
Seems this is usually due to missing or slightly different composer information. See this for more information.
Looks like there is no composer linked to Taxman but of course it should be George. In my copy of Revolver there is no composer information for any of the tracks. Not sure why this is. Anyone else finding this.
I have seen that as well with missing or different information but in this situation with the George Harrison titles all title and composer information matches.
Seems you are missing the composer data for Taxman, but you are doing a lot better than me I have no composer data for any of the songs and hence no links to any other performances of these works (of which there should be a few)
I have tried to edit the Album data and identify a better match with more Metadata but this is the best one.
Why I am missing metadata that seems to be available to others?
Ok even after the server problems that have now been resolved and after rescanning my library and trying various version of this album I still get no composer data fro any of the tracks for Revolver. This is the same for all of my Beatles albums, though I do get some data for the odd song or two on some albums.
When I look at All Music I find the same review and that this has the complete meta data with composers for every track so why do I not get this data? Why can others such as Brian here get this in Roon and I can’t?
If I select other versions and go to the Tidal version then all the composer data is there. What is going on here? Why is so much metadata missing in albums in my library? How do I get this data added? If its missing on standards such as the Beatles where else it is missing?
I have a Steve Ray Vaughan Greatest Hits Album with a version of Taxman that of course Roon cannot identify as a work/performance without the composer information. Even the Stevie Ray Vaughan album information does not have composer information for Taxman, though it does have composer information for Little Wing and finds three other versions of that in my library. Little Wing is the only track with any composer information that Roon finds for this album but All Music has that information for every track on this album too.
I am now starting to see more and more “missing information” on many very classic/well known albums and I am starting to loose confidence in Roon’s ability to find metadata, which I thought is what it is all about. Any thoughts on why I am not getting this data?
Yes I realized I was not understanding things correctly. Roon has the metadata for the composer for all these tracks it is just not showing on this screen. You need to click on the folder looking icon to find this if it is it not shown on this view.
Not quite sure what the criteria for showing composer on this screen is or not. Seems it could be two things. Firstly whenever Roon finds other performances in the library it then shows the composer and the number of performances. Second is when the composer is different to the main artist(s) on the Album. Not sure if this is right or not.
So then this leaves me with the same problem you originally raised that Roon is not finding multiple performances of many songs even when the title and composer are the same in the metadata. Taxman being one example.
This is how Mike has explained the display of composer credits it in another thread earlier today.
"Composer credits are displayed on album details when they’re sufficiently “interesting”, meaning the composer is notable or figures prominently in your collection.
That’s why cover versions often jump out – if you have a good deal of Bob Dylan in you collection, performances of his works are probably interesting to you, and linking back to other performances is important context.
At one time we showed more but it was really unusable, particularly for pop albums where a song could have 20 composers."
