Is this content from local files, TIDAL, or Qobuz?
Local
Screenshot of import settings
Description of the issue
I’m manually identifying some albums.
Sometimes cases like the one depicted in the picture appear.
Roon seems to have the album in his database, however he doesn’t seem to have the metadata and asks to import mine (from MusicBrainz). What is it about?
Roon is saying that the track timings are slightly different from what it has in its database. However, you can accept this match and save the album. Here’s what Roon has for timings:
Hi Geoff. Thank you for your support. Actually, it wasn’t a timing issue. It was a bit of an insidious issue: I had entered correct metadata into incorrect audio tracks. Roon noticed this because the sequence and the titles of the tracks didn’t match the execution time of the composition.
Now I’ve made things right.
Let me draw your attention to another interesting case, only apparently similar to the one on Diego Ares’ album dedicated to Scarlatti.
The similarity is suggested by the same interface Roon reserves for the two cases, but it ends there.
Today I asked Roon to identify an album recently produced by LINN dedicated to Haydn:
Roon offered me the same graphical interface as the Diego Ares album, i.e. with the left column without metadata and the right column with all my metadata highlighted with an exclamation mark.
If in the case of Diego Ares’s album the mistake was mine, because I messed up the tracks before entering the metadata (and Roon noticed this because the timing of the tracks was inconsistent), in the case of the Maxwell Quartet, Roon seems to know about the album but ignores the metadata.
This means that when you manually identify an album, the same Roon interface appears both when, in fact, there is something wrong with our metadata, and when in Roon’s databases there is news of the album we are trying to identify but those databases are devoid of the relevant metadata (in the case of the Maxwell Quartet obviously because it is a too recent release).
That is to be expected as the album will officially released on January 24th as of 2025, more than 2 weeks to go. Roon seemingly already has incomplete or contradictive sets of metadata for this album prior to its release so particularly track titles and track durations might be still missing. Any contradiction usually leads to a halt in automatic identification procedure.
