Core Machine
nucleus, rock, irrelevant to problem
Network Details
switched 100/1000 ethernet, irrelevant
Audio Devices
USB connected Benchmark DAC-3, irrelevant.
Library Size
220,000 tracks
Description of Issue
I’m using ROONALBUMTAG to enable me to import my album ratings, created over years prior to roon, into roon. Works fine. I have tag values like “unrated”, “rating = 8” etc. I’ve imported thousands of these tags into my roon library. When I listen to a previously unrated album and rate it, I use mp3tag (outside roon) to change the tag from (say) “unrated” to “rating = 8”. It should get picked up on the next rescan or forced rescan. Well, it doesn’t. However, if I select an album that I have changed the tag on, and in the album view select edit/rescan, the new tag pops up.
why do these 2 ways of initiating a scan differ, and why does the bulk rescan fail to modify the new tag values while the individual album view scan does make the change?
this is repeatable, and I have tried it on multiple albums. I recently modified the ROONALBUMTAG on about 50 albums after rating them, and none of the modified tags showed up in roon on a forced bulk rescan, yet those I tested did import the changed tag if I used the individual album view.
added note: roon is pretty opaque on implementation. I’ve noticed that forced rescans are quite fast, and speculate that, similar to full and incremental dumps, roon may be doing a lightweight scan and a deeper scan. Perhaps a deeper scan will occur automatically and pick up the tag changes? At any rate, users have no insight or control of scan depth, if there is such a thing, and my tag changes were not picked up automatically from roon file watching, at least in the first 24 hours.