When I go back to Roon, it has inserted the “primary artist” (Various Artists) into the “album artist” space, when that slot should be empty (although it wouldn’t bother me if it duplicates it by default).
I’ve read through your post about three times now and I’m not sure I’m 100% clear on what you’re trying to achieve. Roon is correctly stating that the album artist is ‘Various artists’ (as there are several contributors). In a similar vein, ‘OST, DC 1992-09>95-09’ is not a recognised artist so you will need to add it manually. Could you explain what you expect Roon should be doing with this album?
The Primary Artist is set to Various Artists, which is correct.
The Album Artist should be set to “OST, DC 1992-09>95-09”.
Roon is adding “Various Artists” next to my “Album Artist” entry, which I haven’t asked it to do & it’s putting my “Album Artist” entry next to the primary artists, which I haven’t asked it to do.
The only way I can get it to do what I want is to click on the spurious entry in the “Primary Artist” field to make it red & type my own “Album Artist” entry in the box provided, to override Roon’s double entry bookkeeping!
Basically, it’s just not seeing the metatags that I’ve provided.
Have you tried modifying Settings → Library → Import Settings to change how Roon handles ‘Album artist’? I leave this to Roon, as below, but you might be better off setting it to ‘Prefer file’ if you’ve already tagged your files before import.
Hardly fighting. I can type exactly what I want in the box provided & Roon’s “richness” can do one. But thanks for the reminder. It’s good to know that the problem doesn’t lie with my software or tags.
