Sluggish Performance. Large Collection

[Rugby (aka Daniel or Big Dan)]

And in MP3Tag you can see that you still have Album Artists that are not Various Artists, which causes issues (screen cut below).

I do not do any of this kind of editing in Roon, I use MP3Tag. Highlight all the track in the sub-dir where all the tracks that you want Roon to see as an album, and make sure that…

1. All of the tracks have the same Album Name and that Album Artist is only “Various Artists”
2. All the tracks are named the same disk number
3. All the track numbers on the disk is unique 1 thru x\

Various posts have been done over the years to how the metadata for compilations should work… here’s one I did awhile back…

Problem with Roon scanning compilation albums

Hey Cory, Roon does things very differently than itunes. itunes just looks at basic information, Roon looks at folder, file tags, and other features to identify the song and then pulls the metadata not from your files but from data providers to create the rich and informative metadata it presents. Usually in the case of compilations, the file tags are the issue. Take a look at one of the compilations and make sure that: That all the files are in a single folder That the files are numbered …