I have many cases of this issue: tracks that look to be properly tagged as per Title and Composer BUT they are not included in their Composition grouping.
Here’s Fred Eaglesmith’s “49 Tons” Composition grouping showing 5 instances…
However in Tracks filter on “49 Tons” there are 6 instances. The top one by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings is not included in the “49 Tons” Composition grouping even though Title and Composer setting match.
@David_Boyd Hi Dave, there is actually no bug here, but at this time, it’s not fixable either. Let me explain.
Of the six tracks you’ve listed, only those on Drive-In Movie have Fred Eaglesmith accredited as the composer in the metadata we’ve received from our suppliers. We run a computationally-expensive process in our metadata service pipeline to figure out, from currently over 60 million tracks, compositions written by the same composer(s), but performed by potentially many different artists – this is why we’re able to offer the very powerful “find other performances in TIDAL” feature.
But critically, the lack of composer information in the Cloud means that only the two tracks on Drive-In Movie have been given a Roon metadata service generated composition ID and the same composition ID.
You must have Fred Eaglesmith as composer for these tracks in your file tags (or have added him as composer manually within Roon), which is why he appears as composer in the track browser. However, currently, we do not perform the same analysis locally in your library that we do in the Cloud, so the other four tracks do not possess the same composition ID that the other two have.
As we improve out metadata systems (and a big re-design is currently underway), we’ll be able to fill in these composer gaps and solve the problem Cloud-side. In the short to medium term, we’re evaluating editing possibilities.
Joel: it has been a while but you are likely right, I would have added Fred as Composer on a few of these tracks. I am a big songwriter/composer proponent so I filled this missing metadata in over the last couple of years (I was an early buy-in)…
