Images and Artwork in Roon

In Roon, all the images embedded in the file tags, are stored next to the audio files or stored in a folder called artwork or scans next to the files are displayed. This includes all images that include cover, front or folder.

Related to this post images will be showed in the following order on the album page:

• folder scans or artwork
  • cover.jpg or front.jpg or folder.jpg
    • back.jpg
      1. booklet1.jpg or liner1.jpg
      2. booklet2.jpg or liner2.jpg

Artists, Composers

Setpoints of the images to take advantage of the full width of the display:

• resolution examples
  • 1900 x 1000 px or larger in the same aspect ratio
  • 1728 x 1080 px
  • 1600 x 1000 px
  • 1280 x 720 px
• at least 960 px and aspect ratio greater than 1.55

Sources for images

Cover

• Allmusic
  • Front-Cover, Back-Cover
• Coveralia
• Discogs
• Fanart.tv
  • Front-Cover, CD
  • There is a Plugin for MusicBrainz Picard available. To use this an API key for Fanart.tv must be entered.
• MusicBrainz

  Band/Artist-Fotos

• Fanart.tv
  • Roon contributes to them and use some of their data.
• Wikipedia

Clear TIDAL Image Cache

1. Quit Roon (or RoonServer)
2. Find and open your Roon or RoonServer folder
3. Locate and delete only the cache folder (Roon/Cache)
4. Restart Roon

Links

• Good album cover sites