· Roon 2.65: the "date added" metadata of half my albums has changed to yesterday (2026/04/26)
The incorrect behavior is new with v2.65. I've seen it rapidly because I usually sort the Album view by "date added". I have ~6500 albums, and now about half of them (~3500) have a "added date" of April 26th 2026, which is the date of a dozen of albums that I effectively added this week-end ( I tend to add about 10 albums each week-end, for a long time)
The wrong added date is visible in the local page of each album; and is used by the global pages when sorting by "date added" : Album view, Track view, Welcome recently added (not sure of their name, my GUI is in French).
All the albums with the wrong added date are from Qobuz. But I also have ~200 albums from Qobuz with a correct added date. Among them some exist also in my local files, but some are only from Qobuz.
My Roon server is on a Linux machine (up to date Manjaro), with 32 GB RAM and local SSDs for database and music files. The GUI are Windows desktop and Android (V2.65), abd show the same wrong date added.
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· Roon server is wired to the router (fast optical fiber for Internet access), GUI are on Wifi 6. No VPN.
Thank you for sharing your report. We have pulled a fresh diagnostic from your Roon Server and are currently reviewing the details with our development team for a deeper analysis.
We will keep you updated as the investigation progresses.
In the meantime, do you have a recent backup that predates the issue with “date added”? If so, restoring from that backup is the best next step for troubleshooting.
Let us know if you’re able to perform a backup restore, and if that maintains the proper “date added”. Thank you!
Hi Benjamin,
Yes, I have a recent backup (last night: after my latest addition of albums and before the upgrade to v2.65.
I did a restore of this backup around 23:35 CEST April 27th.
The Roon server relaunched from the backup performed a lot of exchange with your central servers (or a CDN one …), during ~15 minutes: a behavior much heavier than after a simple restart of my roon server earlier today.
On the GUI, in the Album view sorted by date added, there was a lot of movement. Near the beginning of the exchanges, the albums that I really added yesterday were at the beginning of the page, but gradually albums that I added months ago appeared at the beginning at the page (when “date added” are equals, the sort is by album title). At the end of the exchanges, the situation was the same than before the restore : thousands of of wrong “date added” .
It looks like the correct “date added” from my recent backup were progressively contaminated (i.e. pushed to yesterday) due to the exchange with your central servers. This is strange because I suppose the “date added” metadata is only in my database, not on your servers ? perhaps there is something in the central data on your servers that provoke a setting of my “date added” to the date of the most recent real “date added” ??
· This may be an issue you're already working on. Today I upgraded to 2.65. My core was on a 2012 Mac Mini. I got an error message saying the new update was no longer compatible with OS Catalina, which was as far as I could go on the Mini. I moved my core to my Mac Studio, attached the music drive to the Mac Studio, and did a Restore from Backup using the latest available backup option. Everything updated fine except the Sort option. I use the 'sort by date added' option. This is critical to me. Unfortunately, this isn't working. It's showing albums in alphabetical order, and as if they were added on the day of the latest backup I ran. I've done this process before, and it worked as expected. I'm not sure what is happening.
My collection consists of files on a hard drive and on Tidal. Upon closer inspection, I’ve noticed that my Tidal collection is the one that is out of order. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve physically added a digital file to my hard drive collection, and when looking at just those albums, they seem to be in the correct order when sorting via “date added”. Everything since then has been albums I’ve added via Tidal. These are the ones that are out of order. Everything from Tidal, no matter when I added it to Roon, shows up as being added on April 25th, the day before my last backup ran. These are all showing up in alphabetical order, and the hard drive albums appear at the end of the Tidal albums. For example, let’s say my album collection is 2000 total, 200 of which are sourced from Tidal. When viewing my entire collection via the “by date added” method, I’m first presented with the 200 Tidal albums, alphabetized as if all 200 were added on April 25th, 2026. At the end of the 200 Tidal albums, I’m presented with my hard drive collection of 1800 albums, all being displayed in the correct order they were added to my hard drive. Hope this is helpful.
Hi Benjamin. I did what you suggested, and unfortunately, no changes. The first visible album art is all Tidal albums in alphabetical order, dated as added on April 28th. Everything after that is hard drive albums, dated to the actual date they were added.
Hello, I’m experiencing the same issue as Devin. I use the Sort by date added function; since this morning, most of my Tidal albums appear first because their date added has been changed to April 26, 2026.
I moved the cache files as indicated above, rebooted the Roon server, resynced the Tidal library, logged out of / back into Tidal, etc. Despite this, I still see the same order of items.
Hi @Devin_Dahlgren and others now experiencing this issue with Tidal specifically, we’d like to see if restoring a backup that precedes these issues helps.
First, make a fresh backup of your current database. Then, if you have a backup that was created before you noticed the incorrect ‘date-added’ albums, test out restoring this backup.
Does it revert the incorrect albums and maintain the correct date? Or, after restoring the backup, do they temporarily correct themselves, but then slowly revert to the incorrect ‘date-added’ dates?
I’ve actually already done this testing two backups prior to the most current backup dated April 24th. These did the same thing showing the Tidal collection as date added the date I attempted the last restore, April 28th.
This did change the behavior, and it looks a lot better. It’s not accurate, however. I have albums showing up before others that I know were added earlier. Don’t get me wrong, this is much better and doable, but it would be nice if it could get back to how it was originally. Cheers!
That fixed the issue for me. Date added for Tidal is now correct. I was previously using File modification time which had worked fine until the latest version 2.65 (build 1653).
Today I’ve been able to spend some time looking over this issue. It now seems to be working correctly. I don’t recall ever using this feature, nor have I modified it after the update. Did something change in the update?
After further review of your case, our development team is requesting a copy of your Roon Server database, but under specific conditions.
Essentially, the goal is to restore your backup and grab the database before Roon has a chance to connect to the internet and trigger a metadata update. Speed matters here; follow each step carefully:
Step 1: Disconnect from the Internet. Before doing anything else, disconnect the machine running RoonServer from the internet.
Step 2: Restore from Your Backup. With the internet disconnected, restore your Roon backup as you normally would through the Roon restore process. Make sure the restore completes fully before moving on.
Step 3: Immediately Terminate RoonServer. As soon as the restore finishes, shut down RoonServer right away. The longer it runs, the greater the risk it begins background processes you want to avoid.
Windows: Open Task Manager → find RoonServer → End Task. Or stop it via Services if running as a service.
Mac: Open Activity Monitor → find RoonServer → Force Quit. Or use sudo killall RoonServer in Terminal.
Linux: Run sudo systemctl stop roonserver in a terminal, or sudo killall RoonServer.
Step 4: Locate the Database Folder. Find the Roon database folder on your system. The default locations are:
Windows:%appdata%\Roon\Database
Mac:~/Library/Roon/Database
Linux:~/.local/share/Roon/Server/Database(or the path used during install)
Here is more info on locating your Roon Database location:
Step 5: Zip the Database Folder. Right-click the Database folder and compress/zip it:
Windows: Right-click → Compress to ZIP file (or Send to → Compressed folder)
Mac: Right-click → Compress "Database"
Linux:zip -r Database.zip Database/
Step 6: Send Us the ZIP File Share the resulting ZIP file to our uploader link here:
Hi @benjamin,
My database is uploaded to your server at the URL above.
I proceeded as instructed : cut Internet, restore, stop roonserver, zip the Database folder (in /var/roon/RoonServer), uncut Internet ! , send you the zip.
Hope it will allow you to make progress.
