Ha Ha - Even Tidal struggle with Metadata!

I have had some albums that couldn't be found by searching at all only by finding a track ki knew on it and  then use the album link on it. 

I have trouble with metadata too, even on vinyl.  Now that all the LPs are sorted alphabetically by artist, I'm okay with soloists.

Bands, however, are another kettle of fish entirely.  Do the Rolling Stones come under T (the) R (rolling) or S (stones)?  That's not too bad, as R,S & T are neighbours.  But what happens with bands like Dire Straits? 

Maybe it's time for a Roon based streaming source after all!

Best regards, FT

I have a friend who just has to have everything arranged in alphabetical order; he has C.D.O.!

Foot tapper posted:

Bands, however, are another kettle of fish entirely.  Do the Rolling Stones come under T (the) R (rolling) or S (stones)?  That's not too bad, as R,S & T are neighbours.  But what happens with bands like Dire Straits? 

 

The Rolling Stones comes under R of course.

But where does Les Miserables come (M) and how about Chris de Burgh (B)?  Where does La Traviata come though?

At the end of the day, at least with your own tracks you can make your own decisions, when Tidal (or Quobuz or Spotify) are deciding for you however...

Foot tapper posted:

I have trouble with metadata too, even on vinyl.  Now that all the LPs are sorted alphabetically by artist, I'm okay with soloists.

Bands, however, are another kettle of fish entirely.  Do the Rolling Stones come under T (the) R (rolling) or S (stones)?  That's not too bad, as R,S & T are neighbours.  But what happens with bands like Dire Straits? 

Maybe it's time for a Roon based streaming source after all!

Best regards, FT

Physical sorting is easy following whatever rules/conventions the listener may prefer - I always did in alphabetical order by performing artist for non-classical, (surname first for solo artists), and by composer for classical, then non-classical in order of release and classical by name of work, and overall divided into 3 or 4 genres. When I ripped my LPs and CDs I stored in a file structure that precisely mimicked my old physical approach. Worked perfectly - until I changed to Audirvana as my renderer, which sadly relied on metadata, then revealing the holes, errors and inconsistencies in my files, and no obvious reason in some cases. An absolute PITA - if it wasn’t for the sound quality and cost of something as good to replace it I’d have done so long before now. I did try Roon, and it was no better, or at least, not obviously so,

it is te one thing I miss from when I had an ND5XS (with Twonky then Logiteck Media Server on a NAS, then Serviio on a Mac Mini ipused as a NAS): it happily allowed me to browse using my file structure. I find it weird that other library software doesnt do such a simple thing.

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I like to choose my music by browsing through the album covers in album, or newest music, views in my Uniti Core. It can take a while to find something but often I discover old friends that I had forgotten about.

Mind you, I see that I only have 501 albums listed in the Core. So this strategy probably wouldn't work if I had 2000 or so.

I still get agitated when the Core doesn't find any metadata for a CD I ripped. But my worst fear wasn't realised when it did successfully find the metadata for a disc with 75 tracks on it recently.

best

David