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Hi All

Thought this might be of interest? a question came up on the Roon forum regarding how you could catalogue different versions of the same song? The song in question being 'Knockin on Heavens Door' Danny answered and posted some screen shots to clarify.

@Danny: Roon supports sort by track name in our track browser, but it's not how I recommend doing this. Roon can find a song to be an "interesting composition", whether that be Beethoven's F�r Elise, in this example, Bob Dylan's Knockin' on Heaven's Door. Many things can cause a composition to become interesting, but you can also edit them to be interesting (once we release full editing). Here is what happens when I see Knockin' on my Eric Clapton album:



and here is what I see when I click on "11 Performances":



there are some bugs involving some missing data as well as some duplicated performers that you might see in those images. I was running and older build for testing when I took these screenshots. Sorry!)

The result is much better than the tracks browser sorted by song name, and with a lot more information too. When was that performance? Who was that with? If it was classical, you'd see even more data. We are looking at sourcing song reviews and even more data about individual popular music songs. This would all be here, and your library's metadata will automatically update in the background (in our layer).

And finally this looks good for us who have multiple versions of albums eg high resolution, bonus track versions, etc.:

Not only will we automatically identify duplicate albums, along with a little "version note" (that we pull from your tags), but we stack them so you only see 1 album in the browser. From the album details, you can quickly see and navigate to the "other versions" using information like file formats and audio quality, that "version note", and any other relevant information is there.

If you don't like our duplicate detection, don't worry, just mark them as non-duplicates. If you find that we missed something, you can do manual marking of "another version". If you don't like the behaviour where we hide duplicates from the album browser, you can show hidden items too, or unmark them as "other versions".

Cheers

Russ