Roon corrupts/spams metadata in my database?

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That’s good news!

I don’t see any mentions of Gary Sun in the credits of those 1700+ albums. When I search for Gary Sun or Sun Bolun, only two albums came up.

A heuristic we can use is to compare the number of albums of an artist in MusicBrainz and Roon’s data. If the difference is, say, more than 20%, perhaps something is really screwed up. That’s just a detection. Maybe Roon is already doing some sort of data quality check.

It doesn’t help correct those 1700+ album with bad album artists data though. How that bad list of album artists got associated in the first place is still a mystery?

I noticed that streaming services are flooded with a huge amount of albums that are just random compilation of random stuff. This is not unique in Chinese music. It just so happened to have this crazy 1700+ album with a list of 14+ artists (popular ones) that made it easy to see the problem.

Back to one of my questions before, why didn’t these 1700+ albums show up in Stefanie Sun’s discography in Qobuz?

I really appreciate that you keep digging into this problem. As a developer myself, this kind of issue drives me nut. If Roon’s open source, I would have dug into this issue myself to get a deeper understanding myself. Finding out the root cause gives me the greatest satisfaction :sweat_smile:

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Because they are using a single metadata source (their own) and it’s correct.

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The problem for Stefanie Sun is fixed. She’s removed from that long list of album artists in those 1700+ albums. But the other album artists are still stuck there.

For example,

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None of the artist in the album credit should be associated with the album.

Is your fix just a one-off for Stefanie Sun? I’m only using Stefanie Sun as an example.

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The only fix applied so far is for Stefanie Sun. The more general fix is something we still have to do, but I can’t give you any timescale.