![]() ![]() This process of identification involves analysing your music library, which in turn means Roon works best if your music library is organised to its tastes. Roon’s abstraction layer only works, and its musical graph can only be built, if Roon can identify the music you have, so it can link it to the information it holds online about your music. (It also allows combining your collection with streaming services and connecting the two, but this isn’t the focus of this article.) Note that all this is done without ever actually editing your collection Roon scans your library, but its identification and additional data is stored in its own databases. Roon allows you to import your locally stored music. These are pages built as a result of scanning my music library, but the data itself doesn’t come from my library, it comes from Roon’s database.Īll this extra data and linking-together is built up as a result of you adding your music library to Roon. Roon can build a graph of relationships between different albums, artists, genres, labels and more which makes browsing your music library not only enjoyable… but informative!įor a product like Roon that looks really… really… beautiful, I think a few pictures best describe this… That’s a ‘graph’ in the discrete mathematical sense a way of modelling relationships between different things. Underlying this is a musical graph that Roon builds. This is great for high-end hi-fi devices, because the last thing a hi-fi manufacturer wants is their beautiful hardware being let down by less-than-beautiful music libraries. One of Roon’s differentiators is the way it presents an abstraction layer over your library comprehensively augmenting and correcting it. Roon has become a (pretty-much) default playback option in hi-fi. Since then the team behind Roon have persued a strategy of developing their software while integrating it with hi-fi devices. Roon made a big splash on its release in 2015, particularly amongst audiophiles. It shows your music library at its best, linking your library together and furnishing it with additional metadata to deliver a truly immersive experience. ![]() Roon is a music player optimised to make browing your library enjoyable. So, I have concluded that unless my naming and tagging is letter-perfect, composition recognition will continue to be a hit-or-miss affair.The ultimate guide to importing a music library to Roon Finally, I’ve been reminded often that my interests are in the distinct minority. And, I have seen the shoddy quality of the DBs it must use. Also, I think Roon has reached a point of diminishing returns on improving its recognition rate and on metadata generally, particularly for classical stuff. I like the additional information that comes from linked classical compositions. (I am speaking from the perspective of a mostly classical library.) So getting the WORK and PART tags populated with accurate (a la Allmusic) canonical names has been a major effort. My experience suggests that Roon’s algorithm used to ID compositions is, er, conservative, bordering on timid. Most of my time has been spent tagging files in an effort to increase the “hit rate” on composition linking. ![]() So I inferred that my workflow was flawed somehow. Not corrupt, not skipped per se, just ignored. That said, I have had a few albums, where I changed folder names, that were in Roon’s watch folder but never would make it into the DB. Folder names were just one of several tasks and only involved a minor part of the tasks. Trust me, folks, I’m not being terribly obsessive. Then Roon will pick up on the refurbished album(s).Ī fourth task is to occasionally use my Tagger (Yate) to make bulk changes, i.e., adding a canonical composition name to all the different performances in my library at once. What I have resorted to twice is to unlink and relink the watch folder. It is then that I am not sure how to proceed. But on two occasions, Roon seems not to notice that my refurbed albums have been added to the watch folder. For these problem cases, I use the process described in the PO, then re-tag, ID, and/or renumber and then re-import. Either the number of edits required is large, or Roon won’t let go of a prior incorrect ID. But again, I don’t go through the trouble of “export/delete/change/import” process described in my OP.Ī third primary task is a “do-over”. Sometimes I may also need to add or update DB tags (mostly from MusicBrainz, sometimes from Discogs). Usually, I’ve will leave the album in place in the Roon watch folder, use a third-party tagger, and make changes “live”. I suspect this type of change is most prone to havoc.Īnother task is a long-term project of mine to change composition names to their canonical format a la Allmusic. Also, I would combine multi-disc sets into a single organizing folder. One current task is to normalize (change) folder names. ![]()
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