I’m having a problem with an album whose path Roon seems to forget. I moved my entire iTunes Media folder from it’s standard OS X location to a NAS (but kept the library and XML data in place). I used iTunes feature for relocating the media folder and then copying everything to it, so that iTunes’ own paths would be updated.
Most of the songs play just fine in Roon, but all of a sudden some refuse to play. When I take a look at the path displayed in Roon, it shows the old local path. Restarting RoonServer seems to fix the issue and display the correct path.
I did this yesterday, but I just had to do it again, so I’m not sure what’s going on. It seems Roon confused the paths once again.
If this happens again, you may want to go to Settings > Storage > iTunes library (gear icon) > Force Rescan. Assuming iTunes is updating properly, we should pick up the new file locations.
Just keep in mind, Roon’s Watched Folders are designed to scan your folders and watch for changes – if a file moves or is modified, Roon should pick up those changes in most cases.
However, if you’re using your iTunes library in Roon, we’re dependent on whatever iTunes tells us – if you move your files and the references in your iTunes library are out of date, Roon will be too.
Yes, I understand. I’m still figuring out how to best use Roon. It might make sense to quit iTunes altogether, although I have quite a lot of old playlists that I would miss, and being able to edit metadata and access the music on Apple devices is nice.
But it sure seems to be much easier to just drop the files in a watched folder and be done with it. We’ll see.
