When matching against https://musicbrainz.org/release/a96c3428-bcbf-4f7b-942d-2c2d12d6cd06,
songkong is populating Album Artists, Composers and Conductors with the cyrillic versions of the artists’ names, not the English.
This is despite the “Romanise names” option bing checked in Format. What might be blocking it in this case?
It’s because you have just added this release to MusicBrainz so had to retrieve it from there instead of Albunack, when we get directly from MusicBrainz (which is a special case not the norm) then we don’t get quite as much data so we can’t support all options, but this case would be easy enough so raised https://jthink.atlassian.net/browse/SONGKONG-2889
FWIW this is what we use when we get direct form MusicBrainz https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/a96c3428-bcbf-4f7b-942d-2c2d12d6cd06?inc=media+labels+recordings+release-groups+artist-credits+isrcs+artists+artist-rels+recording-rels+recording-level-rels
So release artist credit shows
<artist-credit>
<name-credit joinphrase=", ">
<name>Gennady Rozhdestvensky</name>
<artist id="90595f34-e23e-4d0c-97cd-7d69b66e0727" type="Person" type-id="b6e035f4-3ce9-331c-97df-83397230b0df">
<name>Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский</name>
<sort-name>Rozhdestvensky, Gennadi Nikolayevich</sort-name>
<country>RU</country>
<disambiguation>conductor</disambiguation>
</artist>
</name-credit>
<name-credit>
<artist id="c3aa140f-0121-43e5-b44d-39578c29f57a" type="Orchestra" type-id="a0b36c92-3eb1-3839-a4f9-4799823f54a5">
<name>Orchestre de Paris</name>
<sort-name>Orchestre de Paris</sort-name>
<country>FR</country>
</artist>
</name-credit>
</artist-credit>
Notice for the conductor for the artist the name is Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский there is no English/Latin name. There is one at artist credit though (Gennady Rozhdestvensky) - so as a workaround if you were to uncheck Use Standard Artist Name instead of Name On Cover it would use artist credit name rather than artist name and that should fix at least some of them, could you give that a try please.
Whereas when we get it directly from Albunack artists have a spoecial latin-name field derived from the aliases available for the artist that we use for Romanize Name
<artist id="90595f34-e23e-4d0c-97cd-7d69b66e0727" type="Person">
<name>Геннадий Николаевич Рождественский</name>
<sort-name>Rozhdestvensky, Gennady</sort-name>
<latin-name>Gennady Rozhdestvensky</latin-name>
</artist>
So if the release in not in Albunack but the artist is (which would be the usual case) we could get the artist from Albunack replacing the one provided by MusicBrainz, riased issue https://jthink.atlassian.net/browse/SONGKONG-2889
When I uncheck " Use standard Artist name instead of name displayed on cover" the “Album Artist” and Artist fields are modified to use the English versions of the names. Howevet the Conductor and Composer fields remain in Russian.
Yes because there is no artist credit for these relationships to use instead, I have now fixed issue for next release.