When looking at the Steely Dan’s albums making part of my local library, using Discography and the ‘In My Library’ selector besides Focus, I get all my local albums.
However, if I deselect the ‘In My Library’ selector, to get a view of the complete Discography, 2 albums ‘Can’t Buy aThrill’ and ‘Aja’ do not show the ‘In Library’ symbol.
How comes, and how to remedy? Re-identifying does not do the job!
Another example of the same issue bob Dylan - Triplicate
So does this mean it is a metadata issue?
Albums that were available in Discography in the past, seem to be removed from the Discography.
Roon does find these ‘missing’ albums only when looking in my local library.
I can imagine this could happen for SACD albums, but is completely unacceptable for regular CD’s.
I’m not sure if this is exactly the same thing but I do have identical symptoms.
Are those missing albums available in Qobuz? Have you tried playing them? In my case the missing Steely Dan album was “Countdown to Ecstasy”. Roon seems to have changed the way it handles unavailable streamed content. So an unavailable album will no longer get a library symbol in the discography. Also partially unavailable albums are being treated differently as well. Before, an unavailable track used to get a red “unavailable” label, now the tracks are simply not displayed at all., only the partially complete album.
It’s all rather confusing, just sweeping the Qobuz (and I assume Tidal) “unavailability” out of view. It would be better if there was some kind of flagging system, maybe in Focus so that unavailable library versions could be replaced manually with available ones whilst some more automated solution is put in place. It has become such a common issue I find. Especially with more mainstream, highly streamed content like Steely Dan where licencing changes may be more frequent . One annoying detail is that edits, playcounts etc. are lost when replacing unavailable versions with available ones. This has knock-on effects in terms of recommendations, most-played and also unattended streams will halt with “too many errors”.
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