I’m not sure what, if anything, can be done about this on Roon’s end, and in all honesty it’s hardly a deal breaker (particularly as I have a lifetime sub!) but I’ve noticed that, when listening to Radio Paradise at least, often the album appearing on the ‘now playing’ display is a compilation rather than the original appearance.
Here are four examples from within the space of 75 minutes today - there may have been more in that time period but I wasn’t noting every song. I checked and all the original albums for each of these songs are available on Qobuz, and it would be nice to be pointed to an original album rather than a compilation, but as I say, if nothing can be done I’ll not worry too much:-
Basic metadata carried by Radio Paradise audio stream only contain a string “artist - song”, with no indication of the album.
Then Roon does its best to match “artist” and “song” with a recording, and a compilation can be picked up instead of the original album. The worst case is with classical, for “Beethoven - Symphony n°9” there are hundreds of matches…
I actually have a solution for you to get better results for Radio Paradise channels: select the FLAC stream which has no native metadata (the one ending with /flac, not /flacm).
This alternate source is actually better as the album name is fetched from RP website and added to the metadata message in the form “artist - title / album”). This allows for a better match in most cases.
Thank you for that suggestion. I was most impressed to see the added metadata setup earlier today on BBC stations. I’ll change the stream and see how things go.