I have 3 albums by a local artist called Jane Taylor that I’ve stored on my hard drive and added to my Roon library. Jane Taylor is an English singer/songwriter that Roon identifies as having been born in 1972 - I can’t verify this but it seems about right. She released an album called Montpelier in 2006 and a second album called Compass in 2008. Roon recognises both albums and attributes them to the artist correctly. More recently Jane has released another album called All The Colours. Roon detects that it was released in 2022, but does not attribute it to the same, correct, Jane Taylor. Instead, it attributes it to another Jane Taylor, an English poet born in 1783, who apparently penned the words to Twinckle Twinckle Little Star! Roon does show the correct album artwork and track listings, so it’s not all wrong.
Whilst this is not a show-stopper, and I can find the album when I want to, it is annoying. It seems that it should be easy to fix this and I’ve browsed around the Roon app to find a way, without success.
Can anybody point me in the right direction for a solution?
Hi @Stephen_Neads. Is this new album “unidentified” in Roon? We only appear to have streaming service metadata for this album, which we do not currently use for the identification of local content.
Hi Joel,
If I look at the version stored in my library it does say unidentified. I can see also that Qobus has the album, and when I select this, Roon does not show the unidentified label.
At the moment, it’s irrelevant that Qobuz has the album.
It would appear that you have the 18th Century poet in your library somewhere and your Roon Server is choosing matching it incorrectly to the name in your file tags. In this case, I would advise manually editing the album artist and track credits in Roon. You should be able to select the correct Jane Taylor.
I did manage to find the album and track editors (I didn’t know they were there) and eventually managed to force each album to link to the correct Jane Taylor. Whilst making the edits, I found that Montpelier and Compass were originally attributed to both Jane Taylors as primary artist. Interestingly, when I’d managed to remove the incorrect one, the 18th poet Jane Taylor disappeared from my artists list altogether. She does not appear in my composers list either. So, the question is, how did she appear in the first place, as I don’t seem to have any other references to her?
Thank you for your help. FYI, my wife messaged Jane Taylor telling her of this confusion. Apparently a film company in Sweden asked her in the past for permission to use the words of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - so the confusion is long running and widespread!