Prolific jazz bassist Dave Holland died in January, Roon erroneously reports

Ashley_Doane · February 22, 2018, 3:23pm

Pretty sure Dave is still with us.

HWZ · February 22, 2018, 3:44pm

you’re right, of course! The guy that passed away in January this year was a DRUMMER called Dave Holland!

John_V · February 22, 2018, 5:04pm

He passed before his time. Whoever he was.

joel · February 22, 2018, 6:35pm

Thanks for the report @Ashley_Doane. As is most common with these cases, TIDAL has accidentally assigned the same Artist identifier to two people who have the same name, and it has confused our metadata systems. I’ve made an edit which should propagate to your library within a week, resolving the problem.

We are working on a new algorithm that will automatically notice and ignore these sorts of mistakes in the future, even when 3rd party sources of data contain incorrect information about an artist’s identity.

Ashley_Doane · March 1, 2018, 3:55pm

OK makes sense, thanks

Coltrane · August 23, 2019, 6:04am

Stupid algorithms

Flashman · August 23, 2019, 11:56am

Ruining the stock market, too! (Stupid algorithms)