I’ve always thought it is biased toward tidal as it has more subscribers and data as it was first in to Roon and is available in more countries. So roon has more this person then played that pathways stored.
AceRimmer
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Let me check a few more Daily Mix spread over next few days to get a more meaningful average and I will report back.
@jamie Just from looking at your screenshot I can tell the instances where Qobuz has been chosen are where it has a hires version. Would you mind confirming this for me please by playing the tracks?
I’m pretty certain that you’ll never get a 44/16 track from Qobuz. Just like I am experiencing.
I have reported previously that AAC that are 24 bit on Tidal are preferred to 16/44 on Qobuz.
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AceRimmer
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There could be something in that as well.
Most of the Qobuz choices I looked at were indeed higher res than 16/44.
Maybe @Sloop_John_B theory holds water here too.
And this would then all jive with my obscure genre theory as there would simply not be any hires Qobuz versions available for Roon to choose from.
So Tidal AAC maybe influencing the mix choice here.
I would hazzard a guess that Valence as per usual is picking the most popular versions of tracks or ones that match better from Roons user base like Radio does and as more users are likely still using Tidal versions as it’s more widely used as it’s available in more countries?
I’m not saying resolution plays a role it what is selected, just that if both platforms only have a 44/16 version of a track, then the Qobuz version is never the one which is picked.
Qobuz tracks are only ever added to daily mixes if they have a better quality version than Tidal.
This is clear from my experience and the screenshots which have been shown here in the last few posts.