Just stumbled across a similar case:
Did you try the ´… > Edit > Fix Group tracking´ option and check if really all tracks of disc no. 2 are actually recognized as disc 2 in roon (and disc 1 tracks as disc 1 accordingly)?
A common mistake: Disc 2 being recognized as disc 1. Group tracking can easily renumber the wrong disc.
Once that is fixed, what happens if you mark both split albums (for example in the album overview or Brubeck´s artist page) and perform the ´Edit > Merge albums´ spell?
In this case merging is possible without roon reporting a contradiction, so we can proceed and the full album is recognized automatically. If you get an error reported such as ´Some tracks have same disc and track number´, there are still disc number errors to be fixed.
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It took me awhile to figure out how to select multiple albums, but when I select both the disc 1 & disc 2 albums in the view, there is no “…” icon to select & then take actions (such as “Edit” to try to define the two instances as a single album.
When I select either separate instance of the album (same cover image and Album name) and (in Album Options) I click Identify Album, I then see a single matching image of the album in Roon’s database.
When I select that Roon album, for the 1st disc, the Roon album has 12 tracks (correct total for the 2-disc album) & validates that my disc matches the 1st 6 tracks.
When I select my 2nd disc and Identify album, it matches the last 6 tracks on Roons album to my selected disc.
Doing “Fix Track Grouping” shows the same mappings.
But Roon still sees them as two versions of the same 12 track album, with one disc missing the last 6 tracks & the other missing the first 6 tracks.
I have combed through all of the album metadata for both and, other than discnum, they are identical.
I even tried renumbering tracks 1-6 on the 2nd disc to be 7-12; but, that did not fix it.
I am considering moving all of the track files to under the parent album folder and adjusting the metadate to make them appear to be a single disc.
Instead of -
Album-name folder
Album disc 1 folder
disc 1 Flac files
Album disc 2 folder
disc 2 Flac files
I would have -
Album-name folder
disc 1 & disc 2 Flac files
Of course, the metadata would also be appropriately modified
Hopefully importing will match up OK with the Roon database up with Roon Database
That does work solely in case you alter the disc number and make sure roon is not seeing it as disc no. 2. Fix group tracking should show the disc number roon is prescribing to that disc.
merging the track files in the same folder (matching metadata edited) to make the rip seem to be of a single disk did not work.
I deleted the album from Roon, rebooted the server, re-ripped the discs, following the recommended procedure: placed both disc folders under single album folder (& made appropriate metadata changes), imported into Ron (it “discovered” the new folders in the monitored music location).
Not sure of what I did next to fix the situation.
. Fooled around with the Versions view, made sure to “identify” both discs to the same matching Roon Album version; at one point I Edited Album “Multi-Part Composition Grouping” to prefer File Data…
Eventually, when I selected both Album instances in the Album View, I saw an “…” option icon which allowed me access to the magical “Merge” function.
Now everything is “Fine & Dandy, like a hard candy Christmas” (ya’ll can google these lyrics …).
Just glad that those multi-disk albums where playing in-sequence is important, in general seem to merge properly by default. I would not want to struggle like this for numerous albums.
p.s. I was surprised that the final merged album, reverted back to preferring the Roon data under “Multi-Part Composition Grouping”.
