Hi,
After moving Roon Server from Synology to a brand new Linux Server (NUC) my new added files are not longer automatically recognized by Roon. After “Force Rescan” the files will be added fine. How could this problem solved?
The files are on a Synology Diskstation connected via SMB.
Enno
this is because there is an issue with SMB real-time watch not really working with Synology (and maybe other NAS brands that don’t implement SMB file tracking properly).
You may find that deletions do work real-time but additions to an already watched folder require a re-scan. Edits to metatags also require a folder re-scan if the file names changed; tag only changes might get picked up with an album re-scan.
@support may want to add a more tech explanation and whether there will be a solution.
Thanks Nick.
Ok, SMB seems to be the problem here. A workaround or a solution would be nice as my server is not constantly on and so I would forget to do a resacan often after optimizing my library.
Roon will reacan everytime you restart it… in case that helps
OK, but if I forget to to do a rescan manually the changes will be lost. I am tweaking on my database anytime.
What would be the best solution? Switching to NFS? What about the statistics after the switch. I do not want to loose things like last added, most played and so on.
You won’t lose any of those things. Changes within Roon (e.g. Editing) go straight into the database. I thought you were talking about adding new files to your folders and how they get picked up.
Nick,
You wrote
I thought that if I edit some tags und forget to do a rescan, the edits disappear because I shutdown and restart my server every night for backups.
Dear @support could You please tell me a solution. Should I switch to NFS? How to do that without loosing anything of the database?
If you mean EDIT TAGS as in the tags attached to the files themselves in the folders where you keep your music files edited using a tag editing app (like mp3tag) then Roon will see these edits every time you start up and/or rescan your watched folders.
If you mean EDIT tags ie data IN ROON then these are written to the Roon database.
In either case you will not lose anything.
Ah ok, I misunderstood that, sorry Nick. I meant no real tagging (mp3tag) but changing some album titles or covers within the Roon database.
I have mounted NFS shares now in Ubuntu Server in the fstab as I read that NFS on Linux should be better.
Mounting like /mnt/nas in Roon is fine but how to do the switch now? I want to keep all the data from the former SMB shares and there should be no new import of the albums.
I’ve tested NFS and there are the same trouble. Only doing a rescan manuelly will help.
Thanks so far to Nick for helping.
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