Intel NUC 11 Pro Mini PC Tiger Canyon Intel i5-1135G7 4C/8T 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB M.2 NVME SSD, Windows 11 Pro
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Music files on Synology NAS
1GBe Wired Network
Connected Audio Devices
Various including PC–> AudioengineD1 and Primare NP5 → NAIM DAC
Number of Tracks in Library
22,000
Description of Issue
So this is weird - I have a folder with 43 ripped to FLAC tracks all from the same album (5CD Complete Jack Johnson Sessions by Miles Davis); Roon sees only CD1 tracks 1-5 and 8-9 (not 10); CD2 1 and 6 only; CD3 2-5 and 7; CD4 2,4,6,8 and 9 and CD5 1, 3 (3 times) 4 (3 times)
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Can you find the missing tracks by searching in Roon?
It’s possible/likely the missing tracks are appearing under the versions tab of other releases or are hidden as duplicates if you have hide duplicates enabled.
This is especially likely if you haven’t organized the album as per the link above.
You could also check Skipped Files in Settings>Library in case there were issues with your ripped files.
And 2nd what @ged_hickman1 said.
I always view and tag my rips with a metadata program.
This improves the likelihood of Roon finding and identifying them properly and (usually) eliminates the need to make edits in Roon.
Roon edits are only applicable to Roon’s database and don’t apply to the files so having accurate metadata tags allows the files to appear as one likes if for whatever reason you aren’t using Roon.
Some investigation has, I think got to the root of the issue and it wasnt what I expected.
Certainly all of the files were there on the drive and mp3 tag revealed no difference in terms of meta data between the files that Roon could see and those that it (I thought) could not. Equally the “missing files” were not listed as “skipped”
What I think happened was this
I had a legacy rip (i.e. pre-Roon) of the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions; for reasons now lost on me this was incomplete
When Roon first installed it saw these files and created an incomplete album (incomplete but correct in terms of the files on the drive) - this led me to realise that the recording was incomplete
I therefore re-ripped the entire 5 cds resulting in a complete set of ripped files - I assumed Roon would fill in the missing files into the existing album
What Roon did was recognise a “new” album comprising only the files that had been missing from the original rip; for reasons I don’t understand Roon only showed in my file library this new album.
I was able to see the “old” album by unhiding files using Roon settings
I could then merge “old” and “new” into a single and complete album. Hooray
Is it possible in Roon to ask a reverse lookup - i.e. how is a particular file on a drive recorded in Roon’s album/artist/track database?
Sometimes it does go odd with files that are already in existence. I can’t think of a way to do the reverse lookup as you have to find the track in roon first to find where it is physically.
Using Roon GUI on a PC or Mac (not a tablet device):
Roon → Tracks
Select all tracks
“…” icon → Export → Export to Excel (to desktop)
Then open the spreadsheet … you will see a column call “Path” that details the file’s location for each track.
Hope this helps.
If required it is also possible to view the path in the tracks page, use the “cog” icon and add “path” to the list of columns that are displayed.
PS
I’d suggest moving your new RIPs (and the old RIPs) out of Roon watched folder.
Run a setting → Library Cleanup to remove the data from Roon’s DB.
Stop the Roon Core.
Move just the new rips back
Restart the Roon Core, and let Roon ingest the complete set from scratch in one pass.