Apart from the fact it will take me a little while to listen to all CD’s ( Gong 13 CD’s, Steve Hillage 22CD’s ) as the header suggests may not rip and add to my Nucleus just yet!. Why, Because in the past adding boxed sets with a small number of discs has caused me a few headaches having to spend time tinkering with the metadata to display correctly. Did attempt and ripped the first three discs of Steve Hillage but to me Roon just got confused with the metadata?, Did not know whether to treat each disc a single release or as a boxed set!. I think in the end may well rip and add to Roon, Treat each disc as a single release and then create a new playlist.
I’ve ripped box sets that grouped correctly and some appeared as single albums with duplicate album art. Used the merge function to group them when needed. Have you tried using the merge function?
Have used the merge function but only with boxed sets up to 6 discs. Suppose could un merge if need be!. At the moment ripping after playing as I go along and not sure what would happen merging 22 discs at once?.
Since you’ve used merge you’re probably more familiar with it. I’ve only used it a few times. It should work all at once or singularly as you add them. Let us know how it turns out.
What I usually do with boxsets which consist of individual releases (per disc) is to add those as single albums and use a Roon tag (like “Boxset Artist: Boxset Title”) to clamp them together as a “pseudo” box set that way. It’s not perfect but as long as there’s no boxset browser it works better than having all discs mangled together under one album entry.
Since one can add a Roon tag to another Roon tag it’s also possible to have some pseudo hierarchy like
Boxsets (parent tag)
- Boxset 1 (child tag 1)
- Boxset 2 (child tag 2)
- ...
Adding a bookmark to the Boxsets parent tag gives easy access to all your “pseudo” boxsets.
