I donloaded the 24/96 WAV versions of Nils Frahm “All Melody” from Erased Tapes website.
When it first imported it, it creates two albums, one with just a single track. But when i click on either album and attempt to use the “missing tracks” functionality, the missing / split track never appears.
So i deleted it all, went in and manually renamed all the tracks in the folder to slightly friendlier ones, and re-imported.
Same thing, roon once against insist on splitting track 8 (called #2) into a seperate album. If i identify the two albums correctly, roon then saves them as two versions of the same album rather than combining them.
Utterly ridiculous behaviour and not the first time I’ve had to deal with this in roon! Why can’t these tools be in any way nicer!
my question is… why on earth is roon splitting up albums into two, when they’re in the same folder, with the same naming convention and same numbering order!
Some insane logic going on there.
slowly but surely starting to lose the will to keep bothering with roon! it makes so many things un-necessarily complicated.
Just so you don’t feel too alone, it does this with random albums, even when the metadata and naming are perfect. (SongKong, Bliss and then checked in Yate and in the Identification section of Roon) I have not been able to track down what’s going on. As you have found, merging is the answer.
I’ve checked the groupings in other apps, and these albums are always grouped correctly. Baffling.
It sometimes happens when roon is scanning and identifying a few tracks of an album first and only later noticing others.
If it is just affecting a single track it can easily be solved by merging. With more complicated multi-disc albums like boxsets I would recommend to temporarily disable the watched folder, move all the files to it while roon is not watching and subsequently enable it again.