Hi gang, I’ve tried searching for this but no luck.
I have a lot of tracks which I ripped CDs of at less than stellar quality mp3 from way back before I knew what the heck I was doing.
Is there a way to somehow get Roon to automatically just play Tidal version of these tracks, or in general simply prefer higher quality when it finds it? The task of re-ripping so much music is a non-starter, not least of which because I’ve lost a lot of the CDs over the years through various moves and such.
If I understand this correctly, the comment does not actually solve what I’m trying to do, but DOES seem to confirm that I can’t quite have the thing I’m trying to do. This would require a manual action to add a Tidal version of every album in my library… what would be most helpful is for Roon to recognize that a better version was available on Tidal, whether or not I’ve actually added it to my library, and use it instead. The manual action to add a better version from Tidal, one by one, over this number of items is very time consuming, enough to be a blocker.
A very good Roon feature would be an automated process to scan the local library perhaps and find better versions on your connected service e.g. Tidal, so as to save the massive time it would take to do it manually. Even one that required you to confirm each match would be better than having to go through your library manually one by one.
Regardless, kudos to @Suedkiez for your helpful reply.
The other guy in my linked post kind of wanted the opposite of what you want, but I had just written my response to that What‘s the same as in your case is that Roon picks a given version as the primary version based on its algorithms, but both of you want some other version to be the primary version.
In the absence of a global switch in Roon, all I could see as a solution was picking the preferred version manually. And my linked post pointed to Roon‘s official help document as well, which is supposed to describe the behavior. However, see the end here in this post.
To give you what you want, Roon would need a configuration option. This might not be a bad idea. There certainly were enough complaints about any possible choice Roon makes automatically. Whether Roon prefers the local version, or the streaming version, or the highest resolution version, there is always a user in a certain situation who finds it wrong.
However, do you really have to do it manually for every album? Maybe do it only for albums you actually play. It’s just 3 clicks per album.
Alternatively, you could maybe export all your albums from Roon (based on the mp3 files) via Soundiiz to Tidal, then delete the mp3 files (or remove them from where Roon can see them).
Do you have lots of albums in your local library that are NOT in Tidal?
If they’re ALL in Tidal, then I might just have roon ignore the storage location.
If you know what albums are in Tidal and what aren’t, maybe take some time and move them into separate parent folders… then have roon ignore the folder with the Tidal duplicates.
@Christopher_Yap feel free to make a post over in Feature Suggestions if your post gets enough votes from other users the team will take a look at it. though I cannot promise that it will be taken up
What‘s the same as in your case is that Roon picks a given version as the primary version based on its algorithms, but both of you want some other version to be the primary version.