Wanted to listen to an album by the Pines… so opened their page, only to find the album wasn’t there. Looked up The Pines’ discography on allmusic and it’s there, and I also know I have the album. So I search for the album and there it is, assigned to a namesake band.
As the problem does not appear to be with Roon’s metadata provider it would point to a bug. Please could some effort be put into investigating and resolving this (beyond just correcting this album).
If data gets automatically compared and matched, situations may come up where the data points are not (evaluated) good enough to determine identity; also thanks to detected issues, the algorithm(s) used can get adjusted. IMHO, what one calls such occurrences ain’t important - reporting it is what counts: because (hopefully) this contributes to improving the Roon metadata set for all Roon users.
Agreed, if it’s addressed it’d benefit everyone, but I’ve seen this sort of thing raised in the past and what typically comes back is some workaround to “fix” the issue within a user’s library rather than address the root cause. I appreciate it’s a complex problem, but it should not be that difficult to do some internal logic checking to identify instances such as this, flag those albums as needing “maintenance” and let a user make the correct selections within Roon to clear the uncertainties. Just as Roon has a listing of “corrupt” files so too it could have a listing of “albums needing user input”.
Equivalence issues are usually dealt with by the Roonlabs team.
Metadata issues in general aren’t something Roon deals with locally so don’t expect much in this regard. The philosophy is, I believe, to provide the best possible (*) metadata from “the cloud” by combining multiple sources using automated processing.
(*) What that means may (greatly) differ depending on who you ask …
The irony here is the albums in question all have musicbrainz album, track and albumartist id’s embedded in file metadata and Roon still gets it wrong.
A musicbrainz ID doesn’t help much to match a value against rovi. Sometimes, muscibrainz has links to allmusic which could probably help to match to rovi, but The Pines at musicbrainz don’t.
They’re different artists, merging them wouldn’t be the right course of action, the album needs to be reassigned to the correct artist and disassociated with the namesake.
3 days, no answer from support. Other posts here answered within the hour today. At this rate I must definitely won’t be renewing. Catch me once, shame on you… catch me twice shame on me.
