That’s exactly my thought. I can somehow live with the situation without 100% formal consistency. Especially because my files have to be that robust feeding roon and sonos in parallel. In my implementation the metadata issue is close to perfect for my requirements.
I invested a lot in metadata cleansing but focused only on the most important tags for me
- Album title
- Album artist
- album image
- Song title
- Song title artist
- Compilation y/n
- Composer (because I have a lot of classical music)
In the composer I have a home made issue: Before roon I organized my composer entries by “year name” because then I could easily see my composers in a historic sequence and composers of non classical further down could be ignored. Now I think I have an issue in roon properly feeding the “works” category because roon obviously doubts the “year name” entry in composer but as I mentioned I’ m not sure about root cause. Unfortunately at least for me it’s not 100% clear how Roon deals with which meta date fields and how I can contrive best in getting it most of it in my set up.