I just started with tidal and understand the iOS option of D/L for offline playback.
If Roon has a similar option - i.e. when adding something from Tidal to Roon where does it download the content to?
As a point in question…I had a digital download of an Album on my NAS - in MP3 format… I added the album from Tidal and removed (deleted in edit) it from the NAS so now its in my library but track info still points to Tidal - is there no way to have an Offline copy?
On an other note if my internet is down - does that mean Roon won’t work at all?
Roon does not download files from Tidal. When you add Tidal albums to your library the audio files themselves still stay on Tidal systems and are streamed from there when you play them. Adding them to your library just makes them show up in local searches and links them with their metadata to all your other files in Roon as appropriate.
If your internet connection is down Roon will not be able to find the Tidal items in your library. Roon itself will still work and play your own files stored locally.
I think from the track info that seems consistent - I figured Tidal content was all streamed - and is possibly a bigger issue for those with capped internet connections like those in Australia.
my guess sis when starting the Core there is a need to have internet for the license to run roon to be validated…after that its probably not needed at least not permanently - but I am not sure 100% about that.
I can live without offline Tidal in Roon - and I have normally connected internet and non capped bandwidth too so thats not an issue.
Hope this clears up anything others might have not asked yet.
That said I might add back the MP3 copy and see what gets played as a default…my hope is Tidal as its 44.1/16 FLAC, but would be interesting to see how it gets handles the internet goes away.
This is correct. Roon only needs intermittent access to check the license from time to time.[quote=“Paul_Chatfield, post:3, topic:18272”]
That said I might add back the MP3 copy and see what gets played as a default…my hope is Tidal as its 44.1/16 FLAC, but would be interesting to see how it gets handles the internet goes away.
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You can hide duplicates and by selecting other version chose which one is primary and will be shown and played by default. If you don’t hide duplicates then both will be shown in your library. I don’t think at the moment Roon will automatically select and play the higher resolution option but I think that has been mentioned as coming with 1.3.