This PC running a late AMD processor and W10 is the core. Files are on HDDs.
I just broke up one large file (FLAC format) into its 9 albums. Titles and covers were edited, then all displayed nicely.
Oddly I could not find the single big album still displayed in ROON but located it in Windows Explorer and deleted it. However as a result, 2 of the 9 albuns no longer displayed yet their files were still there in Windows Explorer!!
So I tried rebooting, reinstalling the large single file (I still had a copy on another drive), reinstating the 2 troublesome ones but those two albums still did not appear although the 9 album one now did.
Cleaning up the library made no difference. What am I missing? This is the first time I’ve stuck the problem and have broken up big filers before with no trouble. Not critical, but frustrating!!!
I could show screen shots of Windows explorer etc but could not see how they would add to information.
Roon allows objects to be split and named differently manually (effect only in Roon!).
What is one or more Roon objects is automatically derived from our metadata, folders and file names.
Anything we manually change in Roon does not change the metadata of the file, only the objects in which they appear in Roon.
I would always try to build the own metadata, names of the files and the folder structure beforehand so that it is easier and automatically creates the desired objects and is always so visible to other programs.
Are you saying you have 1 single file that you are splicing using an audio editing program into different files. Or are you saying you had a box set folder, like all the eagle albums, and you are making a bunch of folders one for each album and moving the files for each album under the appropriate sub-directory.
If it is the last, remember you need to edit the files of each album to set it’s disk number and album name.
The single large file came as CD1, CD2 etc so I renamed each album and designed a specific cover for each. Initially the whole 9 displayed as expected but I could not find a Roon display of the whole set, yet it was, as expected, still there in Windows Explorer. So, thinking it unnecessary now the 9 separate albums were displaying, I deleted the large file from Windows Explorer. But then the first two albums of the set no longer displayed. I rebooted but that did not help. I reinstated the large file, but that has not helped either, yet the first two albums clearly show in Windows Explorer but not on ROON. They have just vanished from display on ROON. I tried reinstating one but it still refused to display. Weird!!
I force fed changes by using ROON edit to eliminate the last 7 albums from the big file of 9. Then, again using editing on ROON, split up those first two albums, renamed them and give them back their modified covers. I still ended up with a group of 7 as well as the first two I wanted but used ROON to delete that group of unwanted 7. Windows Explorer still has both a large file of all 9 and 9 individual files but I’ll now leave them alone!
So I now have the 9 displayed as I had originally but am still mystified about why ROON initially displayed all 9, but then decided to hide CD1 & CD2 when the big file was deleted from Windows Explorer.
I initially chose to modify from the basic Windows Explorer file because breaking up a set using ROON often seems to generate duplicate tracks which have to be laboriously deleted via Roon edit. But then it is very likely I’m using a sledge hammer to crack a nut!!