Just added a 4 CD collection (with 78 tracks) properly tacked - at least I thought so - to my library (with directory structure music/artist/album ) but it did not show up in Roon despite forcing several re-scans.
Intitially I thought this migh be due to one of the following reasons
a) the 78 tracks in one directory (but I have other albums with even more tracks)
b) Apostrophe in the artist and album name “Ken Colyer’s Jazzmen” (but I have already another album for the same artist properly scanned and apparently apostrophes are no problem for Roon with files stored on my Synology NAS)
c) large path / file names (but also no problem)
all 78 tracks showed up as “skipped files” in Roon with an “I/O error”
Eventually I found out that I had erroneously added a space at the end of the album name.
Once this was deleted Roon had no problems in adding the files to the library.
I am running ROCK on a NUC 8i7 with the music files stored on a Synology 218+ (both running with latest OS).
Everything is running very smoothly and I have no other issues except this minor one:
Since a couple of days the “auto scan” of new files apparently doesn’t work anymore and even the “force re-scan” (Settings–>Storage–>Force Rescan) doesn’t work anymore:
In order to force a rescan I have to do (Settings–>Storage–>Disable) followed by (Settings–>Storage–>Enable).
I got a new router (Fritzbox 6591 replaced the old Fritzbox 6490) a couple of days ago but I have no clue if this is the reason for my issues.
The router might be the cause of the auto-scan issue as the NAS is a network device. The auto-scan is the one you’d expect to fail, it’s notoriously tricky on network storage as there’s no local operating system event. I doubt that the router is directly responsible for
That sounds weird. Rather than just disable you could delete the storage altogether and recreate? Take a backup of the database first. This shouldn’t be a destructive as it sounds but if in doubt don’t do it/let me pressure you
I’ve seen a few ROCK issues with special characters in file names and file naming conventions across operating systems are a nightmare. As an example the case you state, file name with space at the end is illegal on at least one version of a recent MicroSoft file system. I’d advise sticking to standard chars in the filenames, metadata is a better place for fancy characters
I hope this helps some, but feel free to wait for support.
Ofcourse special characters are better placed in the meta data. However I am a happy user of dBPoweramp for ripping of my CDs and I have set the configuration to automatically use artist and album name for directory structure.
In this case I manually changed the album name and erroneously added a space. Not a big issue and the first time it happened.
On the “Force Rescan” issue I prefer to accept this for the time being rather than deleting the storage and to recreate…
