Is there any way to automate/simplify the standardization of labels? When I put albums on Roon, it scrapes the metadata and it’s often bang-on. However, when I try to focus on albums from a particular Label, I run into issues.
Some labels are entitled (for example) “Play It Again Sam”. The next record will be “PIAS”. The next record, “PIAS Records”, the next, “Play It Again Sam Records”.
Is there any way to push All Music to standardize this? And more immediately, is there any way to automate the standardization within Roon? I hope I don’t need to manually click through everything but I am afraid that is what I will have to do.
Ar9 makes an excellent point. I have a similar issue with genres. My library is full of different genres like Alternative rock, alt rock, alt. rock, alt-rock, etc. The power to merge labels and genres would go a long way to solving this issue.
Had the same problem and would love to see this issue solved. Sounds unlikely, however, as the underlying data does seemingly not contain comprehensive and coherent label information. Stumbled across some cases in which this seemed to be intentional, as some companies have their sublabels (like Telarc, Tacet and MDG in my case) which are named as the responsible party, not the master label itself.
Fully agree, but with both there is at least a manual solution as you can assign a label (or genre) to any number of focus-selected albums in one go. I did this with the aforementioned albums being listed solely under their sublabel.
Found a case which I had forgotten as ´Heads up´ is a sublabel of Telarc. So first step, focus on all albums being assigned to Heads up while not having a Telarc credit:
I’d do this outside Roon using MusicBrainz Picard to identify the releases, and only change the label tag. Then set Roon to prefer file for label under import settings.
Since MusicBrainz standardizes label, it should improve the situation for releases in the MusicBrainz database.
This can be automated with a little ‘scripting’ in MusicBrainz, i.e., cut ‘n’ paste an $unset list into the preferences, and remove the label, e.g., $unset(label).
This is a great way to update your collection while preserving certain tags. But, read the notes at the end of the following post.
