Import date/date added question

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Hi. Why does Roon show the date added as 1 day prior to the date saved to the IMPORTDATE tag?

For example: If I make the IMPORTDATE tag 2023-01-01 then Roon displays date added as 31 December 2022; and if I change IMPORTDATE tag to 2023-01-02 then Roon shows it as 1 January 2023 etc.

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Perhaps you are in a timezone that has crossed the date line? Roon uses UTC as the basis of its timekeeping.

(just guessing here - I don’t really know what is causing this for you)

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Thanks for this reply. I currently live in a UTC+2 zone, so it should not make a difference given the time of day I tested this (around 7.30am UTC+2). It’s not a big deal but I’d like to know if it’s expected behaviour or if there’s something else at play.

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Indeed, something else must be at play. I’m in the UTC+1 timezone, and I haven’t noticed this issue. I’ll test it for myself later today and report back.

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Example screenshot showing the MP3Tag IMPORTDATE and Roon Date Added:

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Well, I’ve just added IMPORTDATE tags to my Dark City album and used 2 May 2023 as the tag content. That seems to have worked correctly:

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I then changed the tags to 2023-01-01, rescanned the album and again, that shows the correct date:

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This is on a Roon Core running on a ROCK/NUC, using Roon on Windows 11 for the screenshots. What is your Roon Core running on?

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Thanks Geoff! Must be something on my side then. I’ll play around a bit and see what turns up. I’m running Roon Core on a Mac Mini M1 (2021 model).

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I seem to have found the issue. If I manually edit the track level timestamp for Date Added in Roon to anything other than 00:00:00 then it shows the correct added date. I am not sure if this is a me only issue, it seems to be. Nevertheless, this manual workaround looks to have resolved it.

Thankfully I am very selective of the albums I buy and import into my Roon library, so it’s not a big deal for me. I use Tidal and Qobuz mostly for window shopping purposes.

Edit: Issue is not fixed. I have no idea why the date added in Roon shows as one day prior to the import tag I save at file level.

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