I’ve decided to change my Roon Server from my trusty old 2014 Mac Mini to my base model M1 MacBook Pro. M1 CPU, 8 gb of RAM, 256 GB of storage running on the current macOS Sonoma. My local music is located on an external 2 tb USB Western Digtal hard drive.
The system is much faster compared to the Mini, even with a much larger library. However this library is now giving me some headaches.
On top of the screen there is a spinning icon as if Roon is busy importing music. For some reason it has been hanging at the adding music to the library (see screenshot) for hours now.
How many albums do you have in your library that are compilations by Various Artists?
Although we have yet to confirm a causal mechanism, fluctuating library count has been a reported side effect of recent improvements to the indexer. It’s most common for users with a large number of Various Artists or compilation albums.
Quite a few actually. These are screenshots from my backup drive. The music on my 2 tb external hard drive which is connected to my Roon Server (MacBook Pro) is identical.
And this subfolder is part of the Various Artists folder. The files inside are split to their normal albums and tagged accordingly. These are complete albums. Not part of a compilation package.
The spinning wheel is still turning here. I’ve added the Veronica folder after switching from my Mac Mini to MacBook Pro as the server. The other music files haven’t changed. And I didn’t have a spinning wheel back on my Mac Mini.
We’re still investigating logs with development, thank you for your patience. Diagnostics indicate that the import may have finished at last - are you encountering any issues?
Logs show Roon clumping large numbers of files together that are stored together in subdirectories - something like 700 on average, in your case. Usually, Roon’s indexing process clumps together files in the order of magnitude of an album or playlist (10-100). Re-reading your post above, I’d like to confirm whether you have artist-level folders with 500 or more tracks contained within, relying on tagging in Roon for album differentiation. If so, generating a sub-folder for each album might help reduce Roon’s clumping load.
This isn’t likely the cause for the slowdown, however. Something else we see is Roon adding and deleting already scanned content - a separate issue under investigation. If your import process has since completed, we can close this thread, but if you’re still encountering issues let us know.
I do have 1 big folder with about 1k albums as a top 1000 compilation. Each album is stored in its own separate folder. And all arrived pretty much properly tagged. So like a normal album like for example
Thank you for the clarification and your ongoing patience. Forgive me if these details seem redundant at this point, but they do help expedite our investigation with QA.
Do you have any single tag that you’ve applied to all tracks in your current library?
What about a group of tags that are applied across the majority of tags in your library?
Common examples of broad taxonomical custom tagging might include decade-, genre-, or collection-source-based custom tags like 1950s or Bandcampmusic.
We’ll continue to investigate in the meantime. Thanks!
I haven’t really tagged a whole bunch of albums as a single genre. Actually most I haven’t tagged at all as dbPoweramp set the tags by itself when I was ripping my own discs. And the other tracks came pretagged as well.
Most tag changes I’ve made were from adding album art to the files.
I am currently busy rearranging my collection. I am working on my backup drive first. Getting all the ca. 1k albums out of the Veronica folder under the Various Artists folder. Once I’ve done that my intention is to reformat the external drive connected to my Roon Server and copy the updated backup drive back to my Roon drive. And then after clearing the current database have Roon import the drive again.
And then I guess it’s going to be a lets see what happens.
Aside from this issue, Roon is functioning great and very snappy on my MacBook Pro.
Well I don’t know what happened. But the spinning wheel has finally disappeared after about 3 weeks. I haven’t changed anything yet on my Roon Server.
Maybe it was this weeks update that made Roon update its database. But at any rate, all seems well now.
I’ll just continue sorting out the huge various artists folder and I’ll see how it goes from there.
Edit.
I’ve done a sorting out of my music. Cleared the database (dropped the hard drive) from Roon. And set it up again. Roon started importing the music, and in about an hour or so it was completely finished
