(13-Jan-2017, 15:22)mdconnelly Wrote: I think Roon's default assumption is that most people have NOt gone to the trouble of tagging to the extent you have. But when it comes to classical music, being meticulous with tagging is important and relying on Roon's metadata leaves somethign to be desired.
It will be interesting to see if/how Roon changes tagging behavior in their upcoming 1.3 version. It would be wonderful if they could either discern that you've gone to great lengths with your own tags or at least give you an upfront option to prefer filetags when they exist over their own metadata.
I have been meticulous with "tagging" almost since day one of collecting music. My LP collection was always properly sorted as was my CD collection and as I moved to digital I devised my own system which including obvious things such as use of last names for composers and only including initials (following the last name) where they were needed to distinguish the composer, such as the various Bachs. I also delete punctuation and accent marks. The fields I focus on are Album Title, Album Artist (I insert an Album Artist if missing as is sometime the case) and composer. Of course, it means I have to edit every album I download or rip.
It would be great if Roon provided the upfront option you suggested. I have added an additional album since I had fully loaded my library and changed all the tags back to the file tags. I had monentarily forgotten the default Roon setting as my new album appeared to have disappeared into the digital ether. It was quickly fixed. Roon has great metadata editing tools. It would also be great if you had the option to apply the edits done in Roon back to the original file.