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Why don't you email Roon and make the point that you'd like to use 1.1 during your trial period? They can be very helpful and would've able to advise you how best to ensure this happens.

My Sooloos is hardwired to the network as is my TwinStore. My QNAP NAS as well as my 2009 Macbook Pro are also hardwired to the same network.

I was using my Mac, booted to Win 7, and running Control:PC. I find it more stable than the Mac version. The Macbook is dual boot with Bootcamp, not virtualization, though I do wonder how it would all work under VMFusion. I exported to a directory on the NAS (SMP) called "Roon".

Anyway! It took me 3 attempts to "export" my all of my Sooloos music (at least I thought I had). I have about 1024 albums, and when I ran Roon (I prefer OS X so I run Roon in "mac mode"), looking at Roon directory (it's a watched directory) all that was discovered was 625 albums.

I haven't actually done a close inspection to see what was and wasn't exported. Seems on cursory inspection that none of the "various artists" was exported. But, again, I need to check this. Is there an automated method?

Brian

Brian

If you try the export again to the same folder does it start from where it finished? If you look at the exported folders do they go from A-Z or stop short on T for example?

You can run Sooloos interrogator against your Sooloos core and it will provide you with a list of albums and in Roon you can do the same by going to album view, select all albums using Ctrl a or cmd a depending on if you are using Windows or Mac? Then next to the play button At the top left is a + click on it and select export to xslx.

Sooloos interrogator is available from the streaming forum of HH's

Once you have the files it is fairly straightforward to do a difference between them and identify what is missing?

Cheers

Russ

Hi Brian,

It is best to compare the number of tracks not albums, as Sooloos counts say a 5 CD box set as 5 albums but Roon counts the box set as just one.

Regards,
Carl

Carl

Good point, sorry for the confusion.

Russ

Thanks, I'll count. However, just half seems the albums being exported make me believe it's unlikely to be the issue. But count I will.

Oh, when exporting to the same directory Control:PC does nothing.

I have a Sooloos Control:10 and TwinStore hardwired to my network. I have a QNAP NAS and 2009 Macbook Pro hardwired to the same network.

The Macbook is dual boot, OSX and Win7. I used Win7 to run Contol:PC (seems more stable than the OSX version). It still took 3 tries to export the Sooloos music to the QNAP in native format (FLAC).

I have tried to finish the export in both Control:PC and Control:Mac, but both do nothing i.e. nothing else is exported.

I trust this is the information you wanted.

Hi

Your setup sounds good, have you compared the track numbers to see if you really have missing files?

Cheers

Russ

Nope haven't counted yet. Have visitors from America, so will do it this weekend after they leave.

Brian

Ok, drop me a pm if you have any questions?

Russ

A quick scan of my Roon music directory show complete absence of any album with "various artists". As a matter of fact only artists starting with "The" are included in the "T's". There are no artists exported to U.

I'm trying a reexport now. Is there any way to automate this? On the C10 I see I can identify specific albums for export.

Brian

I've managed to export all of my music (I think!). To make this easy:

1. In the original export no albums were exported in the "various artists" directory.
2. On reexport all of the "various artists" were imported to the following directory:

artists/artists/various artists

Roon found all of these albums.

3. To make the file structure easier for me I moved all of the "various..." to:

artists/various artists

All the these albums are still found under Roon, but Roon also report 100's of duplicates. Though non-are truly duplicated that I can see.

Question: How do I force Roon to update it's data to reflect the true state of the collection? i.e. get rid of the false duplicates.

Also...Russ! Thanks for your continued help.

Brian