Cannot Delete an album

[Nick_Zwar]

How do I delete an album from ROON? There is an album in my local library which I have deleted. However, in ROON, it still shows. When I click on the three dots, go to EDIT, then “DELETE ALBUM”, it gives this warning:

Which is fine, the files aren’t there anymore anyway. But the album is NOT deleted, it just stays there. When I go to Library Maintenance to clean up the Library, I get that everything is ok, no files to clean up.

Yet I have this “ghost” album in my library. It is NOT on streaming or doubled up, just an album on local files that is no longer there.

I tried rescanning the album, deleting the album, renaming the album… I can’t get it out of the database for some reason.

[Tony-A]

I ran into the same problem some time ago. What I did, in my case, I deleted the files or information directly from my Roon Server (an old Mac mini 2012).
Regards,
Tony

[Nick_Zwar]

Hi Tony, thanks for your reply. There are no files to delete, the album is no longer there. But the album is still shown in the ROON database. That is the problem. I cannot delete it out of the database. I even went to settings, disable storage, waited for a minute… and ALL the albums of my local library were gone… EXCEPT for the one that’s deleted. Even though this album does not exist anymore, Roon still displays it as if it were in its folder. It’s a “ghost” entry that somehow doesn’t get deleted.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Have you actually clicked that Permanently Delete button on the warning screen?

[Nick_Zwar]

Hi Geoff, yes, I have.

[Geoff_Coupe]

Next thing to try is restarting your Roon Server…

[Nick_Zwar]

Hi Geoff,
thanks! That worked. I rebooted the ROON Core Server, and the ghost album has disappeared. Thanks! Unsure what happend, but that did the trick.

Regards
Nick