Roon file search

Believe High Fidelity · Mar 6, 2017

Any Roon users out there?

Have been playing around with the software for the past few days to test. Is there a way to search/find tracks that are not in an album?

I have a number of unnamed tracks or ones that would not be able to get metadata for in order to use Roon's search function.

asiufy · Mar 6, 2017

By 'unnamed' you mean without proper metadata, likely WAV or DFF files (hate those)?
Normally, the file itself has a name, like "01 Song title.wav", so if you search for "Song title", that file will come up in the Roon search.

Believe High Fidelity · Mar 6, 2017

asiufy said:
By 'unnamed' you mean without proper metadata, likely WAV or DFF files (hate those)?
Normally, the file itself has a name, like "01 Song title.wav", so if you search for "Song title", that file will come up in the Roon search.

Thank for the tip. Doing a trial run and it has been somewhat challenging to find files compared to Jriver or Foobar.

asiufy · Mar 6, 2017

Yeah Roon is a challenge if you're used to a more traditional folder-based browsing/organizing. Specially since a lot of folks with Windows PCs end up ripping their collection to WAV, which does not support metadata (only with a kludge in JRiver and other apps), so Roon has a hard time deciphering those files. Still, it IS able to properly recognize them as a proper album, if you have all the files ripped right, and in the same folder...

I believe I also read something about Roon implementing some form of folder-based browsing... I see in the "Focus" tab you can now filter by file location, so perhaps that will help as well... (It's in Focus > Inspector > Storage Locations)

Believe High Fidelity · Mar 6, 2017

asiufy said:
Yeah Roon is a challenge if you're used to a more traditional folder-based browsing/organizing. Specially since a lot of folks with Windows PCs end up ripping their collection to WAV, which does not support metadata (only with a kludge in JRiver and other apps), so Roon has a hard time deciphering those files. Still, it IS able to properly recognize them as a proper album, if you have all the files ripped right, and in the same folder...

I believe I also read something about Roon implementing some form of folder-based browsing... I see in the "Focus" tab you can now filter by file location, so perhaps that will help as well... (It's in Focus > Inspector > Storage Locations)

Ohhh yes that does help out quite a bit thank you so much.

Yes I had many plans to play with Roon for some time, but I see a squirrel and then I forget. So finally got around to seeing what they hype is about and I have to say it is very cool so far (minus the lack of a folder tree option)

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