I’ve used Tidal forever, and am thinking of adding Qobuz, mainly for sound quality reasons. But I don’t want to create a bunch of technological headaches for myself. Any thoughts on the following questions would be appreciated.
(1) After adding Qobuz, do I need to manually export Tidal albums and playlists to Qobuz in order to determine which version sounds better?
(2) When I add an album or track to my Roon library, what version (Tidal or Qobuz) is selected by Roon? Or do I have to decide every time?
(3) When an album exists on both services, which version does Roon make the default? Or do I need to decide?
(4) For those running both services long-term inside Roon: have you found any unexpected friction or annoyances that aren’t obvious at first?
Thanks. I added Qobuz and exported four albums from Tidal to Qobuz, which was easy enough. One issue: after exporting an album from Tidal to Qobuz, if the Qobuz version is selected as the primary version by Roon (as it was for the four trial albums), the displayed ‘date added’ is the date of the export, not the date on which the Tidal version was originally added. So, if I bulk export my 800 albums from Tidal to Qobuz, and if Roon selects the Qobuz versions for most albums, most of my albums will have the same ‘date added’ (the date of export).
I almost always use ‘By date added’ as the criterion for sorting the albums in Roon’s display of My Albums. I think I know the answer to this, but is there any way to have the ‘date originally added to my library’ displayed for both the Tidal and Qobuz versions?
Unfortunately not, it will be the date of when the Qobuz version was added. It will also not transfer other metadata from the Tidal version, such as play counts, Roon tags, or Roon metadata edits you might have made. All this metadata is, unfortunately, tied to the specific versions, without a way to transfer it.