I have just subscribed to roon and I am currently importing my music library from sooloos. I have around 75000 tracks to import and quite a few of them are Greek music and artists.
As sooloos did not recognise my Greek music as expected (many albums where in latin characters and others were badly listed), I had cleaned it up and named everything in a proper way. During import into Roon artists, albums and tracks are changed arbitrarily and makes me handling the library very difficult. Some artists are in both greek and latin writing and so its impossible to manage the music.
Have Sooloos write your edits out to tagged files using the export feature.
Then go into Settings -> Library -> Import Settings and adjust your metadata preferences.
For each of the track/album fields that we get from file tags, you can set it to âprefer Roonâ or âprefer Fileâ. This way you can use the text from the files while keeping any extended metadata that Roon adds.
You can also set this up on a per-album/track basis if you just want it for a subset of your library.
ok. Thanks. I will see how it goes. The problem is that this issue affects only part of my library and the rest is OK. While importing from the export directory it is difficult to have any control as it import thousands of albums.
You can set up prefer-file behavior on a track-by-track/album-by-album basis, too if you donât want it for your whole library.
Use focus to zero in on the set of tracks or albums that need it. Then multi-select the tracks, edit, and apply the settings using the âmetadata preferencesâ tab.
Sure, just add the other folder in settings->storage.
I probably did not express myself correctly. I meant if I have to add a new cd, do I need to add it to Sooloos, then export it to the Sooloos export directory and then add it to the Roon Library or is there a cd import function within roon.
Equally, if the CD has been ripped onto my HD how do I add it to the Roon library?
Roon does have an Export feature, that you can use to export albums or playlists to folders on your computer. Details are here.
Just note that youâll need to take the exported content and copy it to your flash drive, or iPod, or whatever â right now, Roon does not sync directly to iPhones or Android devices, although we do hope to add that functionality in the future.
Sorry for the string of questions but I am totally excited about roon and have gotten back into digging in to my music.
Is there a quick way to list all the albums based on the quality (i.e. mp3 vs flac) in order to rescan the mp3 albums in flac and upgrade the quality of my music library?
I am using the export function on my Sooloos system as you suggested to maintain all my music in directory that I then get Roon to read from. While I am maintaining my music files (i.e. deleting lossy files and replacing them with MQA or CD quality files) i am seeing discrepancies.
Could you help me understand how the export function works on the sooloos system? I know I should be asking Meridian about this but their support is not up to par and I got immediate and accurate responses from you before.
At some I pressed the button Scan for Problems and it said that it unchecked some files for export because they were deleted (or something like that). How can I reset this?
The problem I have is that the information button in Control PC indicates that I have 83500 tracks in my library while Roon says it has imported 81270 tracks. What has happened to the rest?
The tool I refer to is the library interrogator. However, please bear with me as the recent server migration of that forum appears to have broken the download link. Hopefully I will get that fixed asap.
In the meantime, run the Track level XL list for your Roon library and familiarise yourself with what that shows.