Disappearing Music

[eightninenine (Martin)]

Hi All,

I did have a little search on this topic, admittedly not that thoroughly, so apologies if I missed a previous answer.

As most of us know, streaming services make constant changes to their catalogues. Recently, I noticed an album I had played many times in the past was no longer in my library, and I re-added it from Tidal.

But is there a way to identify albums that are no longer linked to streaming content? Or where music has been removed from a streaming service? I’d like to be informed when this happens.

It would be good to have a list that I could reference and either find substitute music, or know that it’s permanently removed and I should pursue a purchase of the music.

If anyone is following what I’ve written above, it would be much appreciated if you could provide a solution, or maybe I need to categorise this as a development suggestion.

Thanks in advance.

Martin

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@eightninenine

But is there a way to identify albums that are no longer linked to streaming content? Or where music has been removed from a streaming service? I’d like to be informed when this happens.

Roon > My Tracks > Focus > Inspector > Available, then click the Available tag to invert.

How to stop Roon deleting Qobuz content

Um - this is there for tracks and is working for me. Use the tracks browser and Focus on Unavailable tracks… [image] From an entry here you can go to the Album and use the Version tab to get the new version (if it is present in the streaming service) PS - the " Other" channel workaround is not necessary, and appears to have been deprecated.

[eightninenine (Martin)]

I thought there would be a way. Thanks for finding what I failed to.
I’ll keep an eye on this list in the future.

[David_Gibson]

Roon > Albums > Focus > Channel Layout > Other

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Apparently this doesn’t catch them all and @Geoff_Coupe discovered Roon > My Tracks > Focus > Inspector > Available to be more reliable.

[Mikael_Ollars]

Is this a TIDAL only thing?

There is no “Available”for my Qobuz/Local files-library?

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

No, as you can see in Geoff‘s screenshot in the linked post. I suppose I misremembered and it’s not under Inspector

[David_White1 (David White)]

There is definitely “-available” for Qobuz. I have a bookmark for it because they relicence stuff so often and it has to be removed and replaced with the new version

[Geoff_Coupe]

I suspect you are looking at Focus in the Album browser - you should be looking at Focus in the TRACK browser…

[Mikael_Ollars]

You are quite right Geoff, i had forgotten that part! (But i see no good reason as to why it shouldn’t be available from the Albums Focus panel)

[Geoff_Coupe]

Because quite often one or two individual tracks in an album become unavailable because of changing rights issues, but the album itself is still available.

It makes more sense (to me at least) to keep the laser focus on tracks…