Metadata not updating, even after force rescan

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Content you’re reporting an issue with

Not important. This is a friend’s band, not in any metadata database anywhere.

Have you made any edits to this content in Roon?

No. Only with kid3.

Is the album identified in Roon?

Unidentified (as expected).

Is this content from local files, TIDAL, or Qobuz?

Content from local files on a NAS.

Screenshot of import settings

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Note this is not the complete screen. The dialog is much longer than one screenshot can capture. But it’s basically “Prefer File” instead of “Prefer Roon” for everything I care about. (I let Roon handle things like Performer Credits.)

Description of the issue

When I first ripped the album I had incomplete info, so I gave it a partial band name (“Crystal Beth”) and tracks just named “Track 1” and so forth. Then I found the actual track listing. I used kid3 to update the artist name (“Crystal Beth and the Boom Boom Band”) and song names, and fixed the file names and moved the album into the proper parent folder. But Roon is still showing the old album and old track names, even after I’ve done a force rescan of the entire NAS. How can I get it to update?

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Hi @Walter_Harley,

Roon caches album and track metadata internally when it first imports a release. Simply rescanning doesn’t overwrite that cache for albums it already knows.

One option is to delete the album from your Roon library and re-import it.

Another option is to force Roon to only consider the basic file information in the track files currently - navigate to the album page in Roon → three dots menu → Edit Album → Identify This Album → None of these look right → Use Basic File Information.

Let us know if this helps!

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I did try editing the file as you suggest, but there is no “Use Basic File Information” option shown. There’s a toggle called “Use file tag info”, and I tried enabling that but it didn’t help; whenever I hit “None of these look right” I just get a message saying nothing seems to match.

I’ll try removing and re-adding it.