Fix the "Tidal album not in Roon" problem!

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@Erno_Groot_Severt I wrote about why it is not real time here:

New albums missing on Roon's TIDAL

@fritzg: Unfortunately, in many cases TIDAL can’t tell anyone about a release until it goes out to the public, including its partners. This is a requirement from the record labels. So you can “expect” it to be real time sync, but it is impossible with the current business model where Roon and TIDAL are 2 different companies… and there is no plan or desire for us to merge into one. Right now the sync can be a few days off. We want to get that to be a few minutes off. But that will take some wo…

And I wrote more about the process 2 posts later, here:

New albums missing on Roon's TIDAL

TIDAL gives us full database dumps on a periodic basis. We then take those dumps and process them into a large virtual library. It’s kinda like a big import of everything they have. There are thousands of places where things can go wrong. Technical details can be interesting, but this is really low level stuff. You’ve seen us post technical details often, and I’m not shy about being open with you guys, however, to explain these details would be monumental. Just know we are working on it, and i…

and @Carl described the situation a bit more here:

New albums missing on Roon's TIDAL

[quote=“danny, post:33, topic:6628”]Unfortunately, in many cases TIDAL can’t tell anyone about a release until it goes out to the public, including its partners. This is a requirement from the record labels. [/quote] Different labels / albums = Different release criteria, it’s a comersial constraint which affects: When Tidal update their systems. When Tidal publish their updated data. Then Roon asynchronously to Tidal: Ingests all of the Tidal data Cross references it with all the metadat…

@mike described the situation explicilty about new releases, especially the ‘surprise’ ones here:

New albums missing on Roon's TIDAL

Sometimes we get a data dump from TIDAL that says This album will be available for streaming on this day – our system is built to handle this, and the album will show up at the right time when we have this type of advance notice. Other times, especially with regards to “surprise” releases, or “event” releases (Rihanna, The Beatles, Adele’s single"), TIDAL flips the switch and our database needs to catch up, which can take a day or two. We’re working on some plans for making this better, but th…