Consider this artist:
The absence of an “add photo” button occurs about 20% of the time. The album (Zygmut Stowkowski Piano Concertos) is local, recognized by Roon, and the particular artist is tagged.
I guess my question is: why aren’t ALL photo-less artists accompanied by an “add photo” icon? I think the difference is this: without the icon, photos will be added to my personal database, but not to Valence.
Did you create this artist yourself? I never have this Add Photo link for artists that I created myself and that are not known at all to Roon. And I think that this is exactly the reason:
When the artist is not known to Roon at all, photos can’t be added to Valence because there is no artist to add it to.
But in any case you can always to to the Edit menu and then add a photo there
The album has four cover artists (and a composer):
Iuventus is the only one without an “add photo”. And, it is also an orchestra, which are widely recognized as “artists” on other albums with Valence pics. So I ask again, why would it be omitted? Or to frame it in your perspective, why isn’t a primary artist of a Roon-recognized album also recognized?
PS I did add the pic to my local library but that’s not the question.
Roon does not find a Sinfonia Iuventus artist for me in Tidal or Qobuz. And your first post didn’t give other examples. That’s why I asked if you created the artist yourself, as I am not a mind reader. All I can say is that IF I created an artist myself, like the one in my screenshot, then I never have this Add Photo link. This might have been an explanation in this case.
If Roon knew about the artist, then I have no idea what the difference might be.
Ah, my mistake, I only looked at the artists and there that’s all I get
(Screenshot from phone, below I’m continuing on the MacBook)
But I do get the album that you had, but when I click Sinfonia Iuventus there:
then it shows me this:
What happens if you go to the Qobuz/Tidal version of the Zygmunt Stojowski album, not your local version, and then click the Sinfonia Iuventus there?
I am wondering if Roon created the Sinfonia Iuventus artist on your local version as a local duplicate artist when you imported your local album, and didn’t link it to the existing Polska Orkiestra Sinfonia Iuventus artist. That would explain why yours doesn’t show a photo, bio, and the additional two genres that I see, and that you don’t get the Add Photo link (as it’s maybe considered a local artist).
It’s probably more likely that Roon does not correctly link it if the artist name on the album, Sinfonia Iuventus, is not the exact same as the proper artist name in Roon, Polska Orkiestra Sinfonia Iuventus.
Generally, such artist duplication can happen if you don’t yet have a (streaming) album in the library that credits an artist, even if they are the same names. It happens to me all the time, so that I learned the hard way to always ensure that, before I import a local album, I first add albums to the library from Qobuz/Tidal so that every artist from my to-be-imported local album is already credited on a streaming album, so that Roon finds and links the local import artists correctly. (Sometimes if different artists with the same name exist, it can pick the wrong one regardless, then I have to edit it anyway. But it’s the same during editing of credits generally: If an album is not yet in the library where an artist is properly credited, Roon doesn’t find it during editing and if you create a new one because you then think it does not yet exist, this becomes a separate artist stub. I complained about it in this thread among other places 
You can then merge the local stub artist into the proper one, but I think it’s better to avoid this. It’s a huge pain)
In addition, there’s clearly another case of artist duplication going on here that comes from Roon’s metadata services. Seems that at least two of these seem to be the same artist. You could merge them (after adding at least one album by each to your library)
