Is there a way to force Roon to apply my edits to my music files?

[Geoff_Coupe]

You can export all your local albums to a location where a copy of all your albums will be made. The tracks will have the basic metadata written into them from the Roon database as ID3 tags (if they did not already have them in place).

Basic metadata is defined (in the Roon Labs T&C) as:

• albumartist
• album
• discnumber
• track
• title
• artist
• composer

If you have ripped CDs using a CD drive attached to a ROCK NUC, then indeed in the Roon storage location you end up having folders with a date, and track names that are generic. However, the metadata is used in the export process to give the exported folders names following the Artist/Album naming convention, and track names are renamed from “track nn” to the title held in the track title metadata.

Here’s an example:

What do you use to rip?

Here’s an example… First, what I see in Roon’s InternalStorage folder: [Roon%201088] I chose 4 of these albums and exported them to a folder on my desktop PC: [Roon%201089] Now Artist folders have been created, and within them, folders for the albums (bearing the Album Title). And further down, in an album folder, the tracks have been given the track title names: [Roon%201090] I sometimes think that discussions around here are like listening to Greek Philosophers arguing about the number o…

So you end up with a file and folder structure that is the same as the default naming convention used by dBpoweramp.