For reasons that have always confused me, over time, it seems that some album art disappears from my local library. Typically, these are images for needle drops of 78s and 45s. Occasionally, other album covers vanish. This goes along for a while, and then I get a burst of frustration and dig in and replace them. I do this on my master copy of the whole library and copy individual folders/albums over to the server. Today, I counted eighteen albums which were missing art. While making the eighteen changes on my master copy of the library, I found one duplicated track bearing a slightly incorrect track number, and so I deleted that track as well. I did not feel like working through eighteen individual folders, so I replaced the whole Roon server library, went to lunch, and came back to look at my homescreen. The counts were exact, showing a deduction of one for the track count and for composer.
Nicely done, Roon!
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If you want your own art work, rather than that provided by Roon, you can select that through the edit function for each album. I generally am happy with what Roon gives me, but occasionally, I prefer my own art work - particularly for remastered or re-released albums. To be able to do this the music files need to have art work included. I cannot recall art work ever vanishing and that includes for albums that are not identified in Roon. (I am classical music fan and re-released and/or remastered albums often different artwork to the original albums and it is useful to make this visual distinction)
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Thanks. Basically, that’s what I do – use my art finds. I do that with dbPoweramp in my external master copy. I think the disappearing art is because things originated in iTunes and are not stable.
I have many ALAC files as I no longer use iTunes I have moved these files to a dedicated Roon folder. I no longer have any iTunes files or folders as such. I have not noticed any loss of my chosen art work from these files at any time.
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My working theory is that inserting album art via dbPoweramp for each track is working and stable. iTunes storage did not associate art repeatedly with each track. That is, the art was in some common repository. Actually, the problem may have been carried over to Plex, which I used between iTunes and Roon. I have not yet done any tag or art editing in Roon.
This approach is wrapped up in how I edit tracks in the external master library, which then gets automatic backup via Carbonite. Three copies of everything are generated: master, Roon, and Carbonite off-site.
I’ve got a bit under 11k tracks, which is not large. Frankly, I seem to stream far more than listen to my stuff, unless it is a new rip.