Dear Roon team,
I’ve been pulling my hair for two nights trying to find a workflow of how to catalog my music correctly and I feel I’m stuck and need your help. The background to this is that I realized that my matched albums often contained incorrect information (wrong labels, catalog numbers, missing composers etc etc) which also screwed up the “Performances” label.
After some testing, and trying to edit this manually in Roon I gave up. I run Linux, so the only option for me to correct things is using my Android phone which is just too inconvenient. I came to the realization that if you want to get it done right, you need to do it yourself through expanded file tagging. I’ve been playing around with MP3tag and a Discogs script , and have now a good tool to help me along the way. I used one album as a test case, but I’m still having issues and would love your input.
UPDATE: First topic below is probably not an issue, continued with 4 albums and it seems to be working just nice. See new post below.
I can’t figure out how to combine file tags with data being fetched from the album lookup database in a good way. For instance a lot of the information found under “Credits” would just be too tedious to put into tags (if even possible), so being able to fetch that from the Db is much appreciated. However, let’s take the COMPOSER tag as example. I tagged each track in MP3tag with the COMPOSER tag, but it seems to be completely ignored by Roon which uses whatever it fetched from the Db instead. I can’t seem to find a metadata setting for this particular tag, but just for testing purposes I’ve set everything to “Prefer file” but with no changes. I seem to be able to change this manually under “Credits” in the metadata editor, but that’s basically redoing it again and having spent time tagging that information in the first place then seems pointless. I had similar results with the PERSONNEL tag. Am I missing something fundamental here, can’t data from these two sources be combined?
I have a lot of Jazz albums, which often get reissued by another label. For instance Analogue Productions and their Blue Note reissues. During the tagging process I add both labels, as I want the album to be matched to both, but I can’t get Roon to show more than one label. For instance:
LABEL: “Blue Note;Analogue Productions”
In Roon this shows up as “Analogue Productions” only. I’ve tried with different seperators, but nothing seems to work. Adding another label manually in the meta data editor works just fine by the way.
Thanks in advance!
Patrick