Brilliant solution Greg! This worked a treat. Thanks.
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An interesting reaction ?
- I took 4 CD out of a big box .
- Deleted any reference to the Box
- Renamed the albums as per content (all different)
- Set CD# =1
- Dropped into Roon watched folder
- Roon put them back together again and showed the “original box” with 4CD (89 in original) with the CD# set as per the original box , 79,80,81 & 82
- With a bit of manual intervention I got the 4 CD to ID properly as individual CD’s
Very odd ,is this a hint that ID has been modified to bias towards boxes for a future development ?
Another belly busting laughing idiot situation going on here 
THANK YOU!!! This will work perfectly!
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One way I deal with large box sets such as the new GD Enjoying The Ride box set (60 Disks, Live Material) is I pre tag everything in Tag n Rename. I leave all album titles intact and add Enjoying The Ride Box Set to the genre. Import into Roon. Result. All 60 discs are findable chronologically by date. However better yet- click info and click the highlight Enjoying The Rode Box Set in the info tab and bang, the whole box set is there and sorted by date great workaround
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I often wonder who else uses Tag’n’Rename I have for years, its a solid piece of software
I originally bought it to standardise folders to 500x500 but soon used it extensively
The other goody is MusiCHI tagger , sadly very hard to find. The text manipulation tools are magic
Maybe this is useful too for some of you classical music lovers:
Thinking of doing this myself. Mp3tag does a cracking job although it takes a while to do. First tip is to google the google the individual album covers and save them so you can add them later.
Shame it doesn’t cover WORK/PART COMPOSITION/MOVEMENT these are the really time consuming ones to get consistency across many recordings of the same work
This can be done with Mp3tag easily. The only condition is that the tags on MusicBrainz are properly written:
Symphony no. 8 In G major, op. 88: I. Allegro con brio
I defined a condition that all chraracters before the „:“ is the work and all characters after that is the movement. This can be done with any number of files at once. If there are more than one colon I managed it to convert all colons after the first to a point so that the condition above is safe.
The biggest problem that can not be solved currently is the file limit on MusicBrainz. This is relevant for the larger sets with more than 500 files.
I also still use Tag n Rename, simply because it works so well.
That sort of works but is not without risk, and how do you deal with single movement works, or multi level works such as Operas?
MusicBrainz does have a separate Work Entity separate to the Album entity, so you can use taggers such as Picard and SongKong to get the works directly from MusicBrainz rather than manually parsing the track titles.
I use filter for works with colon(s) so that single movement works remain untouched for the work and movement action.
As I wrote before I do handle multi level works with more than one colon with another action before. But well tagged works do have only one colon, operas usually too. Parts or acts are tagged manually.
After some years of experience with thousends of discs this is a fluid workflow. The only really pain is the hard limit of 500 files from MusicBrainz. That means that the recording tags of the bigger sets must be written manually.
FWIW I find if I use MP3TAG before importing files into Roon storage it breaks them into individual albums. Never had succeeded in breaking them up post import. 