10k limit reached on Tidal

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Hi there, A few years ago I quit SPotify because of the 10k songs limit which is ≈ 1000/2000 albums. I went to Apple Music and didn’t had an issue. Having left Sonos for an hifi system with Roon I moved to tidal last year.

I’ve just reach the 10k limit of Tidal with 10k albums. I’m surprised that Roon doesn’t handle its library separately from Tidal Favorites. I would love to be able to keep my old time library inside Roon while keeping adding favorites inside tidal.

I’ve developed an app to store my 10k tidal favorites with filters & search and I removed a lot of tidal favorites to be able to track new albums.

I’m surprised this isn’t an issue for that much people…

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It does handle the library separately, but adding an album sourced from Tidal in roon is equalling adding a Tidal favorite album. Both libraries are synchronized so the limit applies.

My guess would be that most of roon users with an extensive library have at least a huge fraction of their collection as local files.

I personally had so many issues with Tidal that I moved away from it before the limit was reached. Finally switched to Qobuz and could not be any happier. AFAIK there is no such limit to the album count so I wholeheartedly recommend Qobuz. It is just perfect in combination with roon. You can keep both subscriptions linked to the same roon account.

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The limit is with TIDAL not Roon. Moreover, the action of marking favourite, adds the release to Roon. So, removing the favourite will remove from Roon.

Take out a Qobuz sub and you can enjoy more.

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But there could be a separate way to had to the Roon library without relying on the favorites when browsing tidal from Roon.

I actually went from Apple Music to Qobuz then tidal because Qobuz tend to miss quite some releases I’m looking for (obscur metal releases).

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But there isn’t. This is how Roon works with TIDAL. You can open a request in Feature Suggestions.

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Also noticed that Qobuz does not offer all the albums Tidal has (not so much with metal, but with Electronic and Classical for sure). On the other hand in many cases the albums missing in Qobuz were exactly those causing trouble in roon if sourced from Tidal, particularly with wrong compositions assigned, confusing metadata, albums existing manyfold or of questionable sound quality.

As far as it did not look like complete record label´s catalogues were missing in Qobuz, there seemingly was a reason why some albums are not available. As Qobuz is offering the files in their download store as well, it seems there are simply higher quality standards at play and with all that MQA madness I stopped trusting Tidal and obtained the really important albums for my local library.