Earlier this evening Radio queued up Snow in Vegas from David Gray’s Mutineers (TIDAL.) The artist was “David Gray feat. LeAnn Rimes” so I thought I’d change this to David Gray and LeAnn Rimes, i.e. two credits not one.
But LeAnn Rimes wasn’t listed. Is this because I have no music by her in my library? Also, when I created the artist, nothing is pulled in from the Meta data sources. Is this correct?
Roon can treat a duo as a separate Artist. When it does that then the whole text “David Gray and LeAnn Rimes” will be blue. Alternatively you can add LeAnn Rimes as a second Primary Artist. They will then be separated into two clickable Artists:
As a separate clickable Primary Artist you should then get metadata for LeAnn.
I had intended adding LeAnn Rimes as a secondary primary artist, but she wasn’t listed as I typed.
No LeAnn Rimes! If I then create a new artist called LeAnn Rimes this doesn’t link to any Meta data (as seen in a search for the artist.)
Does she show up as a Tidal Artist on a name search like this:
If so, then merging your new Artist entry with her Tidal entry might be one way of getting her properly added.
I was advised that adding a TIDAL album from the artist in question was one way to get them quickly recognized.
Yes, I get full details on TIDAL artist. I can’t see how I can merge … is the following relevant?
I’ll try @John_V’s suggestion.
Yes, that works. Thanks.
PS. I hate the use of feat. as it creates false artist entities.
I found if I Created a new Rimes artist, say, then subsequently imported a Rimes album from TIDAL, then there would often be two Rimes artists. These phantom artists can be manually deleted, but it’s a pain.
Splitting these TIDAL artists is on our to-do list. I can’t give any timescales though.
Next week will be fine. 
