Roon´s handling of classical composers vs. non-classical

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Or with German music, for instance. Absolutely seminal German pop/rock/jazz releases often have very little or - worse - wildly incorrect metadata, obviously entered by someone who had zero knowledge about the music or the artists. (Sometimes I wonder if people are competing on the number of edits, totally disregarding quality. The same surname often seems acceptable criteria for adding someone to the credits).

In the end, I think important criteria is-

  • How many people listen to the music, so US/UK stuff has the best chances and it’s probably worse the smaller the country. (Obviously, there are artists that are huge in their home country and nobody elsewhere heard of it, so this limits the available editor pool)
  • How nerdy the audience is :slight_smile:

E.g., the biggest German mainstream hits have essentially nothing, probably because the audience of German Schlager music has 0.000000000001% MusicBrainz users. Many German seminal “indie” releases also are extremely patchy, probably because absolute listener numbers are smallish (although Discogs is much better in these genres)

On the other hand, I ripped about 100 bonus CDs that had come with the monthly issues of Spex magazine, the main German indie music mag (now defunct), sampling the music that was discussed in the issue. I expected a holy mess, but the metadata was nearly perfect, probably owing to the nerdy Spex readership…

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They won’t, because this thread is in the Roon Software Discussion category of the forum - where we customers discuss Roon. The Support team monitor the Support category and respond there.

And hopefully you have now cracked how to add composer credits following @Arindal’s guidance…

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That doesn’t edit composer. That edits artist. I’ve already done that to no avail.

I’m giving up. Roon doesn’t want to address or fix. I’m not going to do Roon’s job. Goodbye and good night.

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With all due respect, it does. Here we have an unidentified sampler with composers only partly assigned to some tracks:

Linnsampler3_Nocomposer
Linnsampler3_Nocomposer1022×548 73.2 KB

Go to track editor an add a credit as composer:

CarolKidd_Composer
CarolKidd_Composer1582×1674 67.8 KB

And there she is:

With composer
With composer922×554 76.5 KB

Something tells me there is an easy solution to your problem. Would you mind sharing an example?

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If I am not mistaken, German Schlager is meant to be filed under ´International´ > ´German´ just like ´Volksmusik´. My album count in this field is 0 so I just trust your experience.

I was referring to the Pop/rock main genre which on an average has a better coverage in TiVo or Musicbrainz. Simply because there are not only more potential contributors to crowdsourced metadata around the world, but record labels usually putting some minimum effort into the data to have their products sold around the world as well. Or to put it other way ´round: If a record label is noticing their stuff cannot be ordered from amazon.com they start thinking which data to provide.

I guess that is true to most of genres, but discogs metadata in general is a mess, particularly composer´s names.

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Yeah, I I think Schlager is filed under International > German but it nevertheless in its modern form it IS a type of pop and fits into that, too. Which is true for most music that originates from non-Anglo-American countries. Anyway, like I wrote, German entries in the Pop/Rock genre tend to have terrible metadata as well.