Is this a setting I have wrong, or an indexing problem? If I click on the artist name in the compilation album, it takes me to the correct artist page, so it seems like the artist is correctly identified, it’s just not displaying the compilation album.
I’m using the latest version of Roon for windows on both server and remote. I’ve done the library cleanup and re-scanned the folder with these tracks.
Hi @Andy_Spinks,
Thanks for writing in to let us know about this issue. Did the tracks you were expecting to see appear under the “Appearances” section?
Thanks! For whatever reason, I do not get the “Compilations” section on my Overview page. Following the Dylan example of @DDPS above, my Overview page goes straight from “Appearances” to “Recommended Albums” even though I have at good half dozen compilations with Dylan songs in my library.
As you can see from the second image, there is a Compilations section on the Discography page, and the albums do show up there. It’s just really hard to find them in amongst all the other compilations that are not in my library.
Looking back at the Shins and Caitlin Cary examples, the same is true. But in neither case do the compilation tracks appear in the Overview > Tracks > My Library > More list. George Clinton is even worse: Since I don’t have any George Clinton solo albums in my library, the “My Library” tab disappears completely from the Tracks section of the Overview page.
Just to confirm, are these George Clinton compilation tracks local files? Please share a screenshot of Settings → Library → Import Settings, particularly the Track and Album metadata preferences section.
Thanks for continuing to follow up! The tracks/albums missing from the Artist “Overview” page are what you might call “Various Artists” compilations–movie soundtracks, record label box sets, collections of one-hit wonders, etc. Most are local files, but as you can see in the Bob Dylan screen shots above, it also isn’t showing the ones from Tidal.
For a Compilation album (Various Artists) that is not appearing in the Compilations section as in this post, please open the Album Editor window by clicking on the three dots from the album page. Is this Compilation flagged as a compilation by Roon? You’ll need to edit it if not - Roon won’t include Compilations in Artist pages if they are not considered compilations on the backend, but instead just flagged as “soundtrack” in Album Type.
Hi @connor, Thanks for continuing to follow up! Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be the issue, but it does raise other concerns about Roon’s identification of compilations.
I have 445 albums in my library that are already flagged by Roon as compilations. (Most are single-artist “greatest hits” or box sets, but some of them unfortunately are single-artist studio albums and live albums that Roon shouldn’t have tagged as compilations.):
The first one of the various artists compilations (#1 Hits of the 70s) was correctly tagged as a compilation by Roon, but when I went to the overview page of one of the included artists (Bread), it did not appear.
This example, (along with my Bob Dylan example above) also shows that Greatest Hits compilations do not appear in a separate section, even if they are flagged as compilations.
Hi @Andy_Spinks,
I noticed in the screenshots you shared you’re looking at the overview section of the artists you’re looking at. The overview section doesn’t actually show everything from that artist. If you go to the discography tab do you see what you’re looking for?
Hi @daniel, as shown in one of the earlier screenshots above, these albums appear in the discography page, mixed in with every other compilation they’ve ever appeared on. That’s not the issue. The issue is that they should appear in a compilations section on the overview page, but they don’t. Look at @DDPS’s Bob Dylan Overview page compared to my Bob Dylan Overview page. I have numerous multi-artist compilations with Dylan songs, but this section doesn’t appear on my Overview page like it does on DDPS’s.
This weekend, I tried a little experiment. I started a new roon library on a different machine, and added a few “various artists” compilations. These appeared on the artist Overview page as they should.
Then I created a network share of the music folder on my original roon server, set the new temporary roon server to scan it, and after it loaded all 22,000+ tracks, the “various artists” compilations still appeared on the artist Overview page as they should.
Next, I restored a backup of my original/real roon library on the new temporary roon server. Since the path to the music library was different, none of the local files were in the library, so I changed the path (in the new temporary roon server) to point to the network share of my music folder. After re-scanning that folder, the compilations section disappeared from artist Overview pages.
Hopefully this will help narrow down the source of the problem.
@daniel and @connor, one more thing I noticed that might help with troubleshooting:
In DDPS’s screen shots above, the Artist Overview section heading names are:
Main albums (album count)
Appearances (album count)
Compilations (album count)
While the Artist Overview section headings in my library are:
Albums in my library
Appearances in my library
Not only is the “Compilation” section missing, but the wording is different and there are no album counts in these sections. Surely one of the developers can tell us what causes these differences to appear.
A little more experimentation reveals that enabling/disabling Tidal is what switches these section names and turns off the Compilation section on the Artist Overview page. (It also turns the Discography tab on and off.) Is this the normal behavior?
Sorry, I should have been more specific in my question:
Does the “Compilations” section disappear for all users when they enable Tidal (meaning it is a bug in the product)? Or does this only happen for me (meaning it is a glitch in my installation/library)?
