Roger Waters - Pros and Cons detected as two works

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On Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking it has grouped some tracks together in work 4 and work 5. Probably because the tracknames start with a timecode:

No. Title Length

  1. “4:30 AM (Apparently They Were Travelling Abroad)” 3:12
  2. “4:33 AM (Running Shoes)” 4:08
    etc.

How to ‘unwork’ an album?

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I’m curious about this too. Is this possible for us to edit, or does Roon need to correct the metadata?

Cheers, Greg

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The easy way is to edit the metadata and change the : to a .

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I’m going to revive this thread since I believe it’s still a problem.

I’ve tried editing the track names on my hard drive, even getting rid of colons, periods, and just using 430 as the time. No luck, it still shows as a Work.

I believe it’s a metadata issue or Roon issue with the “dot” between the 4 (or 5) and the rest of the time. Roon is somehow reading it as a Work.

@joel, could you take a look at this one?

Cheers, Greg

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I’ve asked before about being able to ‘unWork’ an album. If there’s any news of how to do this I’d be delighted.

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This is still a problem. Has anyone found a work-around?

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You mean like this -

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@joel - one for you to ponder !

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Exactly. I’ve edited the tags in my FLAC files, and then edited each track in Roon to select the title containing the colon, and then rescan the file/album, and I can’t get away from the display in this capture.

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Just spotted this one. I could kill some artists! I’ll log a ticket for myself to see what can be done.

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I can imagine, but please leave mr. Waters alone. We need him alive.

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This is now fixed in the Roon Metadata Service, but note that it could take up to a week for your library metadata to update.

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My album has already updated. Awesome work. Thanks.

Cheers, Greg

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I thought from the title of the thread that splitting Pros and Cons seemed eminently sensible.

.sjb

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I just ripped the CD, the problem persists (at least for me)

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Hey @Roberto_Kneipp,

This fix still appears sound in our database. Could you please take a look at your tagging on this disc and see it there’s any inconsistency in the Title syntax across the track selections?

This How-to from our help center has some tips for merging incomplete album after import. Please take a look and give this a try.