hey everyone, posting this here in the hope that the community can help inform me a bit about learnings and best practices that some of you roon power users have found and love. if some of what i ask has been discussed (probable) please link me to things you think might be helpful. overall, just wanted to get some thoughts and questions out to you all, so thank you so much in advance.
first off, i work as a music professional. i bought a lifetime sub to roon 5-6 years ago - but after messing around with a NAS kicked that to the curb and opted for the nucleus from roon and have been extremely pleased with that. happy to detail my setup for anyone interested but the main purpose of this post is ask about workflows, best practices and other such items.
so at the moment, i have about 2.6TB of music on an external drive. that has not been put into roon, yet. this is mostly 320k mp3s. i have it all tagged and searchable on swinsian after iTunes went downhill. i have a large collection of vinyl that i attempted to sync via discogs api with my tidal & qobuz accounts - and that ended up putting about 25% of my collection i have on vinyl as favorites and that is the “base” right now for my library on roon. i’ve added some others but not significant amounts to this point. so that is where i’m at currently. now to the questions.
my first and biggest question is the best way to add AND remove albums. dragging folders into the watch folder on nucleus it shows up in roon. however, deleting it seems to leave the album in roon, but not on the drive. so would love insights on that and the best practices of adding and building your library.
has anyone experienced what happens if qobuz or tidal pull a record? does it stay in your library and when you go to play it it says not available? does the album disappear? curious about this as i weigh importing mp3 320k as backups to the flacs from the streamers.
has anyone found focus or other tagging to be a helpful resource in adding and building your library? curious what people have come up with - as i am basically at ground zero with my library and can really build it.
a few random questions - has anyone experienced volume changes? i was playing audio the other day thru a mac studio display - had to turn down to about 25-30 in terms of volume. the next day i had to turn up to 100 and it wasn’t as loud as the day before at 25-30? nothing changed in the audio settings. have noticed this type of behavior in the past, curious if anyone else has?
has anyone browsed via label? i tried this the other day and it didn’t work. for instance if you wanted to look up souljazz record or godwana records and see all the releases is that possible?
would love to hear what everyone has found on some of the questions above or any other tips or tricks, audio settings, etc etc. thanks so much!