Over the years, I’ve added many Chandos albums on Qobuz to my Roon library. I’ve just noticed that Qobuz has replaced many of these with new versions, which means that I’ve had to go through my library switching about 20 albums, because the old versions are now showing as “Unavailable”.
My method to do this is to use Focus > Channel Layout > Other in the Album browser, which still seems to produce a list of albums that are no longer available (Roon Labs had said that this would not always work, but it still seems to be extant).
Then click on each album in the list to get to the Album page. If there’s a new version, the Versions tab will show; click that to display the versions and add the new version to the library, making it the primary version. Finally, remove the old version by using the “3 dots” menu in the header, like so:
It would be great if Roon ever work out why ‘unavailable’ tracks don’t show up properly in the new playlist ‘Improvements’ feature (one presumes this is still being worked on?) if they could apply their new found Qobuz integration skills to albums in general… its a continuing problem with streaming services and getting worse now many of us have albums that were added years ago and have since change ID presumably multiple times!
If you have played the album through at least once then you loose the play history. If you have only played a few tracks then that play history is transferred. This is very strange. The logic seems to be there to transfer the play history and some additional logic is required to stop that happening. Maybe it is a very easy fix for roon? There is no link to your playlists either which need to be semi-manually updated with the playlist improver.
Do you know any reason for that? Did they change the format?
Have recently replaced all my Chandos albums with 5.1 versions during the discount period before their store was closing so I removed all Qobuz versions.
