Radio metadata links pointing to compilations rather than original albums

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).
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This will make Roon look for an alternate metadata source, which has just been integrated with Roon (see Live Radio metadata for BBC, Radio France, FLAC radios and others for more details ).

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.

Example:

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