Roon Album Metadata Editor Preferences

I have a question about the way that Roon sees new albums/tracks that are added to a watched library.

I have just migrated my music library from my PC to a synology NAS. I also migrated my Roon core from the PC to a new SonicTransporter i5. It took a few days of reading through FAQs and the Roon community forums, but it is mostly all working (phew). One annoyance is that when I view my library by “date added” my albums are shown by the date/time that they were migrated and rescanned at the new location. I like to be able to see my most recently acquired (purchased) albums at the head of the list since I find that I frequently want to play them (at least for a while). Going forward, I realize that when I add a new album to my library it will show up at the head of the list. However, it seems that the acquisition history of previous purchases/rips is lost when you migrate a library.

Under Edit, I found the Roon Metadata Preferences and there are options to change the way that Roon records the “import date” of tracks in an album. I played around with these settings but didn’t see any differences in the order in which the album was listed. I feel I am not understanding what the metadata preferences are doing; I read a couple of topics where the metadata preferences settings were discussed but I still don’t quite get it.

SonicTransporter i5
Synology NAS (DS212j)
Windows 10 pro PC
Roon (latest version)

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Did you backup and restore the roon database as part of the migration?

Yes, I backup up my database and used that to restore to the sonictransporter. The music library was backed up to ext USB drive and I used that to copy to the NAS so the structure was the same. I do realize that Windows keeps changing file modified and file created information whenever a folder is simply just accessed. Maybe that is the problem.

Yep, if you did a ‘copy’ to the new location, then you will find the files have that new date associated with them. There’s really nothing Roon can do about that.

When I want to copy to a new location, I use a syncing program. That will preserve the original dates.

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Thanks for that suggestion. I will try implementing it.