Local Music Database Structure - Flat or Hierarchical?

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You might also look at the few that did not import and see if there are issues that caused it.

Check these for more info on special characters and such:

FAQ: Some of my files aren't showing up in Roon

Import failed due to special characters

Hi, I find that my files that have question mark “?” on the filename all failed to be imported. I also remember that one of the issue we had on the forum with importing is because they have “/” on the filename. These characters are not mentioned in the user guide. (https://kb.roonlabs.com/FAQ:_Some_of_my_files_aren’t_showing_up_in_Roon) Could you please add these into the FAQ and if there are other known special characters that makes the import fails. Thank you, Bastian

And this one on meta data:

What can I do to improve my metadata matches?

this is a GREAT question. I’m going to have @jeremiah answer this, since he can answer it authoritatively. The matching rules are broken into two phases. The first clumps the files into albums, the second actually identifies. For clumping, the best you can do is put 1 album in 1 subdirectory, and have media number and track number fields completely filled out in the metadata, with no missing tracks. Contiguously numbered tracks in a subdir with no other files will always get clumped together. …