TIDAL albums in your library are handled differently from the version outside your library. It can be counter-intuitive at times, and we are considering some changes in this area, but the current behavior is designed to be comprehensive and consistent.
For example, consider that TIDAL albums in your library might be incomplete if you only added a track or two. They can also be edited or re-identified, which means they may look right to you but don’t represent the original album 100%.
If you have an album in your library that has 14 tracks, but you’ve only added one track to your library, and you’ve also edited the title of that track, we need to handle that in a sensible way. If you look at the top albums on TIDAL and you click one, we can’t take you to the edited, incomplete version.
Additionally, we always need to give you a way to “complete” the album and add the rest of the tracks. If multiple versions of an album exist, this can be done via the Versions tab, and in other cases, this can be done under the “three dots”
So much of Roon is focused on helping you build and explore a library of music you love, but we need to give you comprehensive access to the content outside your library as well. These may seem like edge cases but for now you’ll always be able to find the version of the album outside your library as well, even if it’s already added.