Ungroup Automatically Grouped Album Versions

eightninenine · April 11, 2026, 7:09am

Hi All,

I’ve seen a few discussions on this topic, but not really any solutions e.g., Ungroup albums that shouldn't be grouped together | Profound Mysteries by Röyksopp)

A reworks of an album with different artists, is being grouped automatically with the main album as a version. So when I view the album artist, under discography I do not see both albums, which in my mind should be separate, only the original one.

Is there a way of ungrouping re-worked, re-mixed, etc. albums yet? Or does this just need to be highlighted for resolution at the back-end, by Roon or TiVo, or whoever.

The album I currently refer to is ‘A Fragile Geography’ by Rafael Anton Irisarri, the re-works is ‘A Fragile Geography: Reworks’, and my streaming service is provided by Tidal.

Help appreciated.

Thanks.

Martin

Michael_Egan · April 11, 2026, 7:49am

Try the following which works for local files. Not sure if this will work for albums from streaming services as I keep Roon and Qobuz totally separate.

Go to the album, select Versions. Click on the 3 dots next to the relevant version and select “remove from group”.

To do on a global basis, under Settings - General, toggle “Show hidden tracks and albums” to Yes

eightninenine · April 11, 2026, 8:11am

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the attempt, unfortunately, this option is not available, perhaps because it’s a streaming version?

I have been alble to do what you show with locally held albums. Maybe I should just buy the re-worked album….

FYI, I also have the album you display.

Cheers,

Martin

Rugby · April 11, 2026, 3:52pm

I would put on a support request selecting metadata and then describe the issue. The grouping is happening upstream and Roon should fix it.

tripleCrotchet · April 12, 2026, 3:28pm

I don’t see any difference in this behaviour with local or streamed content. Makes no difference.

I don’t have Tidal but it should work the same. One possibility is that Irisarri album has 3 versions on Qobuz and roon does indeed auto-group them:

If you want to ungroup them, counterintuitively, you have to first add them to your library, then you can ungroup:

I hadn’t noticed that before. No doubt all libraries are working that way.