Metadata and file tags
Genre Settings
We know many members have spent significant time grooming the genres embedded in their file's tags, and while Roon imports these genre and style tags into the database automatically, they're not displayed by default. This produces a clean and ...
Credit Roles
Canonical Credit Supported Aliases Accordion Arrangement Accordion Arranger Acoustic Guitar Arrangement Alto (Tenor) Horn Arrangement Alto Saxophone Arrangement Alto Vocals Arrangement Arranger Arranged By Arranged By [Additional] Arranged By [Arr.] ...
Identifying Albums
Roon will always try to find the best match for the albums in your collection. However, if you're not happy with the information we've retrieved, we've made it easy for you to correct it. Steps To try and find a better match, click the 3 dots icon on ...
Editing and Grooming Your Collection
Even prior to our launch in May '15, it was clear Roon needed to do much more to meet the needs of users who want to exert control over how metadata is displayed and experienced in the app. At launch, Roon was focused on the user who wants their ...
File Tag Best Practice
Achieving Great Results From File Tagging Roon and file tags Roon has always read a significant amount of information from your file tags. Along with track timings, Roon uses tag information, such as your album and track titles, artist names, unique ...
Fix Track Grouping
Fix Track Grouping is an extremely powerful feature that can help you: Merge albums if you're having difficulty with our Merge Albums feature Split multi-disc sets into individual albums Merge multiple discs into one disc Move tracks into a new disc ...
Gallery
If you're a music fan like us, you remember the joy you felt not just listening to the music you added to your collection, but also the joy of reading the liner notes, seeing who wrote your favorite cuts and who played guitar on them, and exploring ...
Import Settings
Overview Roon's Import Settings provide control over how Roon handles your music files. When you modify import settings, Roon re-evaluates each file in your library taking the new settings into account. This approach allows for the settings to be ...
Lyrics
Where do lyrics in Roon come from? Roon will automatically add lyrics for any track in your library if we have those lyrics from our metadata providers. Starting with Roon Version 1.7 you can also import lyrics from file tags. How do I know if a ...
Merge Albums
Merge Albums is a way to combine stray tracks into a single album or create a multi-disc set where the albums are shown as individual discs in Roon. Combining Stray Tracks in Multiple Albums into One Complete Album For example, you have two or more ...
Metadata Model
Introduction This document is meant to serve as a technical reference to Roon's metadata model. Roon models your metadata in an object graph. This means that there are a set of objects--such as albums, tracks, performers, performances, compositions, ...
Metadata updates
Roon updates the metadata in your collection periodically, and analyzes your audio files on import, but you can always force Roon to do it again. This can be done using either the Album Editor or the Track Editor. For example, in the Album Editor, in ...
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Starting with Roon Server
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