Roon's Commitment to Classical Music

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Regarding **: an answer (on a question of mine) I remember

Adding Artist Unknown that Has to be Known (Sheryl Crow)

Except…it’s not free, or even close to free. Building a crowdsourcing system for metadata corrections/additions is a huge project. As is moderating and maintaining it and keeping it productive. There’s also the risk factor–I don’t think this effort would actually succeed. Large open crowdsourcing projects like Discogs and Musicbrainz have failed to capture this data despite being available to much larger communities of enthusiasts editors than we could hope to assemble here. Why will we succee…

Knowing that musicbrainz2roon is a moving target is important I think. If someone starts putting effort into adding data to musicbrainz expecting that it will all show up may be counter productive. Knowing that not all data will come thru beforehand and also knowing that support in this area may be limited for the time being may save time for all parties involved.

As for this track artist thingie: it’s easy to deal with programmatically. It’s like this now because it went like it always does: classical music wasn’t really thought of when things started at musicbrainz. Now a track artist is required so the workaround for otherwise clean classical metadata seems to be “use composer for track artist, everything else elsewhere”. What counts more is what’s on the relationship page of the picture like here: