I have a 4-disc set (CD rip) that appeared in Roon correctly when originally imported using my tags, it showed as a 4-disc set with the correct track listings. Roon indicated that that album was unidentified so I tried to help identity it correctly, unfortunately the metadata that appears in Roon is totally messed up now. Roon is showing the album as a 2-disc set but only showing discs 1 & 3! I have tried twice to edit the track data but Roon will not save the corrected data. How do I revert back to my original metadata that was there upon first import? Is there a way to clear all of the Roon-edited metadata so I can start again? I fear that there may be other albums that have been messed up.
- Open the album in album browser.
- Click on the triple dots icon right to the album picture and choose edit from the drop down.
- Now the
Album Editor
opens. Chose the first button labeledIdentify Album
(the blue one). - Click on the blue button labeled
None of these look right
at the right-side bottom. - Click on the blue button labeled
None of these look right
at the right-side bottom. - Click on the blue button labeled
Use Basic File Information
. - The
Album Editor
should now close and on the right side of the album cover should be a blue text label readingUnidentified
.
@BlackJack Thank you for your response. Unfortunately this is what I had already tried, the album now shows as unidentified but the metadata still corrupted with tracks all out of order and indicating a 2-disc set of Discs 1 & 3.
Another nuclear option is:
- Make a local copy of the album folder on, say, the desktop.
- Delete, within Roon, the subject album (Album/Edit/Delete Album)
- Go to Settings/Library/Clean Up and instruct it to remove all remnants of the subject album.
- Drag the local copy back into the Roon Watch Folder from whence it was removeth.
Do these in order, particularly the first one about making a backup. Good luck.
- Then the quickest solution is maybe to move the folder for that album temporarily out of Roon’s watched folder.
- Then got to
Settings|Storage
and use triple dots on the right-side of the storage location (the watched folder) the album was stored in to do aForce Rescan
. - Now navigate to
Settings|Library
and click onClean Up Library
. - Check the first option and hit the blue button
Clean Up Library
. - Now you can move the album folder back into the watched folder.
Thanks for your help everyone. I guess the real problem was that I misunderstood how Roon uses edits to metadata, I thought that I was helping things. At any rate, I decided to delete my database and do a fresh import, no more editing in Roon. I don’t understand why I could not reverse the edits for that one 4-disc set, I did everything that was supposed to reset the data to its original state but nothing worked. Moving on, lesson learned.