Hello everyone.
When I add albums from Qobuz that have Japanese text (for album artists and tracks) to Roon, the display switches to English. I tried setting the “METADATA PREFERENCE” to “PREFER FILE,” but that didn’t work.
Is there any way to get Roon to display the Japanese text from Qobuz? Manually changing everything to Japanese would be a huge hassle.
Did you go to Settings > General > Languages? Enable the languages you can read and move them into the correct preferred order
@Suedkiez, thank you for the reply. I posted in English mode to make my explanation clearer, but I am actually adding the albums in Japanese mode. Japanese should be prioritized, but the album artist names and track names end up appearing in English.
Then I don’t know. Sounds like you should open a tech support case:
@Suedkiez Thank you for the advice. I submitted an inquiry under ref#TS7O5A.
@Yoshihiro_Kikuchi
If you have a moment, please consider voting on the proposal below.
@ucchi Thanks for your comment. I clearly understand now that this is a fundamental issue on Roon’s end. I’ve cast my vote for it; it looks like six people have voted so far, including me (though I imagine there are many Japanese users facing this problem). Even though it hasn’t been two years since Qobuz launched in Japan, I really hope they resolve this soon.
Since Qobuz’s Japanese metadata isn’t currently being reflected, the only option seems to be selecting from Roon’s metadata; I searched using “Identify Album,” found data for the LP version, and decided to use that. For the time being, it looks like manually changing the track names to Japanese is the only way to go (though it is certainly better than typing them all in by hand).
Incidentally, the artist names in the Qobuz app are a mess—roughly half appear in English and the other half in Japanese (kana or kanji), regardless of whether the app is set to Japanese or English. It is practically unusable.
The English names are inconsistent, mixing all-caps (BUD POWELL) with standard title-casing (Genny Golson),
while the Japanese names are a chaotic mix of formats: no space between surname and given name (松任谷由実), a half-width space (藤井 風), and a full-width space (小澤 征爾).
It is truly an eyesore.
It really makes me appreciate just how wonderful Roon is.
