What is the best way in Roon to sort out my Fall Peel sessions? [Clumping compositions with WORK and PART file tags]

Sloop_John_B · January 9, 2018, 8:22pm

What I want to achieve is to have a way to easily play a specific fall session from their box set.

So for example I want to group the particular session from June 1978 to play (as a composition?)

I could tag them but then I will create 24 tags. I had hoped I could create the 24 tags and then add then to a “The Fall Sessions Tag” and delete the individual tags but they disappear altogether.

is there a simple way to achieve what I want in Roon?

.sjb

andybob · January 9, 2018, 8:35pm

It’s not wholly within Roon but …

You could use an external file tagging program (I use mp3tag ) to tag each of the broadcasts as a composition. Roon would then group them (unless the 1.4 ungroup compositions setting is used).

Sloop_John_B · January 9, 2018, 8:57pm

What sort of syntax would I need to use to get Roon to see them as compositions?

.sjb

joel · January 9, 2018, 9:13pm

WORK, PART (and WORKID if necessary) tags.

https://kb.roonlabs.com/File_Tag_Best_Practice

andybob · January 9, 2018, 9:16pm

Thanks @joel
Will these now work for identified albums ?

Sloop_John_B · January 10, 2018, 9:08pm

It would appear not from my testing.

I think manually selecting the 4 tracks from each session will have to do!

.sjb

joel · January 10, 2018, 9:13pm

Have you tried this setting for the album, in conjunction with those tags?

Sloop_John_B · January 10, 2018, 10:34pm

No I hadn’t, there really is still so much in Roon to explore!

This works, album recognised and sessions clumped. Thanks @joel

.sjb