Thanks for sharing additional timestamps. From a recent diagnostic, we’re seeing your Nucleus continually attempting to identify tracks in your library, sometimes taking minutes to succeed or fail. For example:
Trace: [identification] <1235759> Identifying album [Various Artists - The Fame Studios Story: 1961-1973] with 75 tracks
This could likely be due to the tracks themselves potentially not being officially released or containing improper metadata, or simply not matching or shaking hands with what Roon has stored for album/track info.
How many compilation records or tracks from ‘Various Artists’ would you say you have in your library?
Switching directions in troubleshooting (again make sure you have a recently saved backup): what happens if you only rely on your Qobuz library, and disable all your locally watched folders? Does search remain slow?
According to the Finder, my Various Artists folder holds over 11,400 items. Assuming that some of those items are the folders themselves, I probably have at least 11,000 tracks under Various Artists. I typically rely on metadata obtained from automated sources, except I have inputted them manually for certain obscure titles.
I can try disabling local searches and reenabling Qobuz searches, but is there a way to fix the issue with the Various Artists searches?
For NOW DO NOTHING , wait until @benjamin can comment , you could lose a lot of data !!! Clicking Clean up Library will DELETE THESE FILES FROM THE LIBRARY.
That 40928 figure is scary . it means that you have what you believe to be an active drive BUT Roon doesn’t see them as it doesn’t see that drive , it could be a corrupt disc etc
This is mine , top section and middle section is zero , so everything I have set Roon to see is seen.
@Mike_O_Neill is correct, cleaning up the library will remove the files from your library. The good news is, if you want to revert your setup to reflect pre-library clean up, this is where your fresh backup comes into play.
All you’d need to do is restore from your saved back up and you’d be back to current database, where you’re at now. So make sure you have a recent backup saved before making any changes.
Clean up those files and let me know how things feel.
I appreciate being able to restore a backup. But, given the size of my library, I wonder whether hitting the button to clear those files would make me lose tracks. Would I be unable to tell whether I have actually lost tracks, as opposed to having cleaned up garbage? Is there a way to track the results of clearing? Thanks.
If all of your current storage locations that contain your music are currently active in Roon Settings → Storage, then the listed files would be files that have since been moved from another location.
I did a bit of a deeper dive into your Roon logs and I noticed that you are also experiencing an issue that we are investigating related to Qobuz content. We have changes coming in our next release to help with this behavior. If you would rather not clean up the library and wait for the next release to see if things improve, this is also an option.
Sorry to hear that the issue is still ongoing. Can you please confirm if you have any duplicate albums showing up after navigating to Roon → Albums → Focus → Inspector → Duplicates?
We’ve also enabled a deeper diagnostic mode for your account as well, can you restart/reboot RoonServer twice to enter this new diagnostic mode? The easiest way to achieve this is by using the Web UI:
Hi. Roon shows 1,719 duplicates out of 10,064 albums, but a quick glance suggests that it is counting as duplicates multiple versions of an album and multiple discs of boxed sets (at least, perhaps, where the set has not been properly characterized as a multi-disc set).
We’re gathering additional diagnostics on the backend with verbose logging enabled by development. For now, please continue to reproduce the issues reported above with both slow search and duplicates such as your patience allows. We’ll be capturing the events in logging and will circle back with a more fruitful next step from developers as soon as possible.
