Messed up albums with various artists in Roon library (ref#J4BD8S)

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

What’s happening?

· Other

Describe the issue

Roon mess up albums in library with various artists

Describe your network setup

Ethernet.

Various Artists albums are taken apart and tracks appear as albums. . I need to manually merge them one by one. All my music files are organized into album folders. Sometimes after I make a
correction by merging newly separated albums, all of a sudden new albums begin getting chopped up. Often when I correct one album, other albums that were also separated will suddenly correct themselves, while new albums get split up.

I use Rock on a nuc. Library on NAS.This started after last update to build 1483. Does not happen every day, but several times a week. The albums have been in my library for several years without problems.

What is going on here, and what to do?

[Geoff_Coupe]

This sounds very like an issue that Roon Labs has been investigating. There’s a fix in Early Access, but it has not yet reached the Production releases, I believe.

Build 1392+: Various Artists Compilations Intermittently Splitting into Duplicate Albums (by track) in Roon, ARC [Roon Investigating]

Like a good little Roon user I dutifully installed the latest Roon update yesterday morning and I’ve had nothing but trouble ever since. It’s a complete disaster. Album covers GONE from 100 of albums. Hundreds of tracks have been orphaned from various albums, increasing the number of albums in my library by over 1,000 Playing anything from either Qobuz or Tidal is now impossible - 10 to 15 minutes for the album to begin playing and then playing stops after a few minutes. Roon ARC still does…

[daniel]

Hi @Hakon_Berg,
Thanks for writing in to ask us about this. Geoff Coupe is correct. We do have a fix in the pipeline. I cannot give you an exact timeline for it’s release but we will try to let you know here when it is. Thank you in advance for your patience.

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

Thanks, that’s good to know. I’ll try to be patient then . Thanks for the quick response.

[daniel]

Hi @Hakon_Berg,
A fix associated with this thread has now merged into Early Access for testing. If you’d like to move your RoonServer machine and Roon controllers to the Early Access branch to try it out, you can follow the instructions here:

Roon Early Access Program

For those who choose to test in Early Access - please post your findings and results in the Early Access section rather than this thread.

After testing, the fix will be released as part of a regular Roon update on the public branch. If you’d prefer to keep your Roon setup on the Production branch, be sure to update when prompted within Roon, and please keep an eye on Software Release Notes.

This thread will remain open until the public release of the fix.

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

I don’t know if this is related, but yesterday another problem appeared. I have 2181 albums in local storage (stored on NAS). Yesterday Roon showed 2275 albums in local storage, which is 94 too many. This was not because albums with various artists had been split up, but because some albums (also with single artists) appeared twice. A reboot of Roon fixed it, at least temporarily, so we’ll see if it appears again. This has also happened a couple of times after updating to build 1483.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Hakon_Berg

some albums (also with single artists) appeared twice

Sounds like the Case One that was singled out here:

Build 1392+: Various Artists Compilations Intermittently Splitting into Duplicate Albums (by track) in Roon, ARC [Roon Investigating]

Hi everyone, Development is investigating and fixing two separate bugs that underpin the behavior reported in this thread. Please respond to this thread indicating which symptom from the two below best describes your situation. We will be separating responses into relevant tracking threads so you can see updates.If you’re encountering both symptoms, please indicate as such. Case One - Roon duplicates an album library object. This is a literal duplication - if you right-click and select eith…

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

Ah, thank you!

[daniel]

Hi @Hakon_Berg,
I agree with @Suedkiez that this is a an occurrence of case 1. Are you planning to try early access or wait for the production release?

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

Hi @daniel
Ok, then I am unfortunately affected by both case 1 and case 2 it seems, but good to know that the matter is being worked on. I am afraid that for various reasons I will have to skip early access, and rather wait, but thanks anyway.

[Hakon_Berg (Håkon Berg)]

The last update, build 1490, seems to have fixed this problem. Downloaded yesterday, so a bit early maybe, but at least it looks good and stable so far.