The SSD for the databse, I can get behind.
I replied to the Roon team saying that everything now seemed to be working (has been perfect since I installed the new graphics drivers) Mentioned that it seemed odd that a music streaming service relied on graphics cards.
They said
âOne of the things that makes Roon different is that our graphics engine is very similar to a video game engine. This makes things prone to problems occurring if there are driver issues occurring, but it also allows us to do some great stuff with our visuals.â
I am now a gamer! 
Lol, they display album covers.
I think itâs closer to the truth that the language they wrote Room in is in hock to the graphics engine.
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Quite. Itâs hardly a high performance application. More hopelessly inefficient.
Surely even some spinning or whatever of album covers would âjust workâ in DirectX, and not need a snazzy graphics card? Ludicrous!
Divvy question.
Cannot Roon not use embedded album art?
99% of my stuff also has a folder.jpg, but on the odd occasion that Roon doesnât know about the album, and the file/files has/have embedded art then it doesnât display it. And I canât immedately see a way of telling it to use embedded data.
Am I missing something?
Iâve had to use MP3tag to sort out the artwork in a few cases with Roon. Donât know what the issue is but it is thereâŚ
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I can always extract the embedded art and drop it in a file - itâs a couple of clicks with Musicbee. I was just wondering if Iâd missed something obvious.
Also, I have two Viagra Boys 
⌠and it had invented a new artist called âPartyâ
Who?
Ohhh. Itâs split up âNusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Partyâ into ⌠
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I have a file called folder.jpg in each of my directories where there is an issue with embedded art. A lot of the time there is no problem at all with the art however it is attached.
That will be a problem with the metadata itself more than with Roon. It doesnât split up Echo and The BunnymenâŚ
Yes, Iâm guessing there are huge automated batches that populate Roonâs data in the cloud and it (or human intervention) donâtâ always get it right. Iâm seeing a few glitches like this.
I had some issues when I moved from my Vortexbox to the Inuos Zen. The transfer of files should have been seamless but wasnât. Iâve sorted a lot of them out. One of the really annoying things that seems to happen is that Roon overrides the disc number in multiple CD sets (not always but enough times for it to be fucking annoying). Of course, then you get track1, track1, track1, track2, track2, track2⌠and it is a real fuckon to sort out.
There does seem to be a huge element of pot luck to this. Roon behaved itself with my library save for an endearing belief that my white and pink noise test tones are the creation of Klaus Doldingerâs Passport.
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In fairness to Roon I transferred about 4500 file sets representing maybe 3500 CD rips and 1000-odd bootleg tapes that I had digitised, (that was a fucking nightmare job) split and tagged. It possible fucked up about 100 of them in a minor fashion and maybe 5 or 6 that were wrong in an epic fashion. That is a pretty good success rate considering I had tagged all the bootleg transfers myself so they were âidiosyncraticâ.
Yes, that works fine if I have a folder.jpg in the same folder as the file(s).
Itâs when the artwork is embedded in the FLAC or mp3 file that it doesnât (seem to) work.
So frâinstance this file really does have a jpg embedded in it
(and Roon has no idea what the album is - I canât blame it for that)
Editing the album in Roon it doesnât want to know
I suspect that they simply donât do embedded artwork. Which is fine, if a little odd.
Copying the embedded image to a folder.jpg in Musicbee and forcing a rescan makes it work fine
Something funky going on because it does support embedded artwork.
As I said, it seems odd - embedded artwork is a pretty basic feature for music files.
This âFocusâ thing is pretty powerful, although you really need to do it on a desktop.
Unsurprisingly nearly all the âunidentifiedâ albums are DJ mixes, continuous mixes of real albums etc.