The second movement should be “Andante” and the third, “Minuet and Trio.” That is what the back cover of my CD says (actually, “Andante” and “Menuetto. Allegro - Trio”), and that is what the AllMusic and Discogs links say. I don’t know where Roon is getting these pieces of information.
If it is any consolation that Schubert SQ2 is one of these compositions with a long history. The 2nd and 4th movements were lost until the late 50’s. So for a long time it was thought that the minuet was the 2nd movement. That is why you can see “fragment” in the work title. It is also why post-war recordings only have 2 movements like this:
So for me, the bad metadata works as my minuet is the 2nd movement in this historical Westminster Records fragment. But more modern recordings like yours have a different running order and it doesn’t work. In fact I am not sure I understand why a full score with 4 movements is still being called a fragment in your screenshot? Unfortunately I find that roon’s metadata suppliers mess the metadata up more often than not where there is a history behind a work as in this case. Revisions and transcriptions are also handled really badly as well.
As I find problems with running orders so regularly I just renumber/rename the tracks and select “prefer file” metadata for the affected albums. That is what I would do in your case. But there are different philosophies on this. One is to have the problem fixed at source by the metadata suppliers. The other is to have enough tools to fix the problems locally when they occur. I don’t think users are notifying the metadata suppliers very often when anomalies occur and so I personally prefer a few tools to fix the problems locally. Sometimes of course nothing can be done to fix the problems, except at source.
How do I fix things now? Going to the track editor for the second track (erroneously called “Minuet and Trio”), I see that the Title is already “Andante” (correct; see screenshot below), but Roon is displaying “Minuet and Trio.” What’s going on? And what should I do?
