Seemingly there are several artists calling themselves ´Fish´, and roon assigns at least 5 albums and countless singles wrongly to the original Fish (ex-Marillion). Same with stuff produced by a record label called ´Fish´ or ´Fisheye´.
We all know that metadata from streaming services is not perfect, but is there a way to fix this, or at least remove the albums from the discography? Is this a problem originating from MusicBrainz. or Xperi database? Interestingly, in Qobuz´ native app, different albums are listed in Fish’s discography which are definitely not by Fish.
Moved from Tidal to Qobuz last year and can say, the latter is way better. Error rate particularly with composers and compositions as well as albums appearing multiple times, is manyfold lower with Qobuz. Tidal had become unusable for me with roon´s dedicated features for classical music.
Usually not very sensitive to mistakes, sometimes I even add performers or merge artists. But album discography of artists I really like and regularly listen to, should not contain wrong albums.
What I tried for a while was to edit the wrong artists out, but this is silly because of course you must have the album in the library before you can edit it, and then if you don’t want it actually, you have to hide.
It’s too much work except in the most annoying cases.
Otherwise, report it in Support > Metadata It may take a while but @joel usually reports it to the metadata services or fixes something in Roon, depending. It helped me several times.
I would do that, but it apparently does not work. The moment you add the album and remove all wrongly assigned artists, it will appear as an additional album from streaming service again.
It is true that in most cases, particularly with albums identified by roon, credits and metadata seemingly come from roon´s own sources (MB and Xperi). Which also means that local files, Tidal and Qobuuz should more or less show the same credits and compile the same discographies.
There are exceptions, though. Maybe Tidal or Qobuz are not sharing their structured metadata, but roon definitely compiles rich data from the data they get, like composition names and Opus number from track names, or main artist. I suspect these to be the main sources of errors.
Thanks @Suedkiez will check which of my favorite artists are affected (Fish and Queen definitely) and report to @Joel
