Roon is not importing Album

Roon Software Discussion
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I recently acquired Yello – Toy, in Flac and Roon is not importing this album.

I have Roon installed on my Mac Mini and the album file is on an external SSD.

I wonder why???

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What do you see here?:

Settings–>Library–>Skipped Files

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I have the same problem and it’s not in the slipper folder.

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Olá

No files have been skipped

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Is Roon setup to scan the directory the music files are in on the external SSD?

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Hi

Yes!. I have 595 albums in the same condition and they are all imported correctly.
Only Yello has the problem.

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Hi
Managed to solve?

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No. The problem remains.

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Will the Product Manager be able to solve the problem? What do you think?

Charles_Gregg. What album were you unable to import?

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Force a rescan, as an experiment to see if that makes a difference.

I’ve had albums that wouldn’t import until I forced a rescan. Dunno why.

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What is the exact name of one of the files…including the extension?

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Hi!

I already did that and it didn’t work.

Thank you!

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Hi

This Mac>HD>FlacMusic>Yello>Toy[48kHz · 24bit]>02-Limbo.flac

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Roon has trouble with special characters, so not sure about that hyphen.

As an experiment, take out the hyphen and maybe that will make a difference.

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Hello xxx!

I’ve done that too and it didn’t work. I renamed the folders with simple names, no special characters and nothing.

I have other albums with the same name configuration, with special characters and the import is ok.

Thank you!

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And you are certain the files are not corrupt?

I had an issue importing some FLAC files into another music software recently. Checking the file size in Finder in MacOS, they seemed to be the correct file size, but upon a closer inspection, all files which gave me issues were corrupted.

If you are on a mac computer, do an inspection (CMD+i I believe) in Finder and check if you see anything weird if you haven’t done so already. Or try importing them into any other software and see if you get issues.

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Are you certain that it’s not imported? Perhaps it is imported but just incorrectly identified or tagged? If you search in Roon for the song “limbo”, does it appear?

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I have had a few issues like this in the past. Never was there an obvious reason why Roon didn’t import files but one thing I always did before trying a different approach was to clean the database each time before making any changes to foldernames etc. Sometimes a complete retype of the foldername will fix it or just use a similar name - but retype the whole name. Alternatively create a new folder and copy all the tracks to that.

EDIT: I did once or twice have a very strange permissions issue whereby Roon couldn’t access/read the files (this will be in your Roon logs as an error message). No idea why this was but I had to remove them from the watched folder, correct the permissions on a WIN10 PC then copy back to the watched folder.

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Thank you Martin_Friberg

I tested the files in other players (audirnana, JRiver) and they are all ok.

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Thank you Tony

I did exactly what you are suggesting and it didn’t work.

Greetings!