How to export my own ratings from Roon

Hello,
I’ve spent a lot of time rating my Tidal albums, lots and lots of them. I am afraid of losing them. How can I export the ratings, so that I have a safe copy?

Rating them in Roon I assume . Then if you’re running regular backups they are stored in these. You can also export an Excel doc from the albums view but there is no way to reimport this into Roon in the event of failure it’s just a hard copy for reference . Your Roon backup is what you use to store and restore data in Roon. Which is why regular backups are essential.

The Excel file doesn’t contain ratings, anyway. I tried it after reading another similar thread yesterday where someone was about to change Tidal accounts.

But as you say, Roon backups are the solution for the OP here.

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Hi @Bernt_Mansson,
Thanks for reaching out to ask us about this. The other users are correct that backups preserve your ratings. Does this suit your use case here?

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Hello @daniel and everybody else

I did lose all my ratings, that was because I changed my Tidal account.

Can I use my backup and restore only the raitings in this case?

Or can I restore my database to my old Tidal account and somehow export my raitings to Excel or Ascii?

FYI, your original post was very confusing because you edited it. In the later version, as it stands now, you didn’t mention switching Tidal accounts at all (and so I thought I had read a different post by someone switching accounts). For this version of the post, “make a backup” is the correct answer.

If you don’t describe the actual scenario, there is danger of getting the wrong answers. I don’t know if in this case it would have changed anything, which is why I didn’t comment when the post was still about switching accounts. But maybe someone could have have provided a method to avoid it, had they known about the account switching.

Hello @Suedkiez I am sorry, that my post got confusing, english is not my native tongue and sometimes things gets “lost in translation”. I can understand that, when a got my “brilliant idea” to edit the post.

I didn’t intend to blame you, I know that second languages are hard :slight_smile: - it was only meant to be informational :slight_smile: I’m glad nobody said anything that might have caused you trouble because they didn’t have the right picture.

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Hi @Bernt_Mansson,

Thank you for your patience. Hopefully I’m understanding your latest question correctly -

If you don’t have access to the old Tidal account or it no longer exists, there’s no way for Roon to retain information about that Tidal content, including ratings.

If you do have access to your old Tidal account, simply restore an available Backup that was synced with that account and log in via those account credentials.

You can’t sync content from both Tidal accounts at once to Roon (including Ratings). The track/album object isn’t retained in Roon independently of Tidal.

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Thank you @connor for your reply

Yes, at this time I still have the old Tidal account. And I do understand that if I restore the old account with my backup, I will get my raitings back.

Then we come to the next part, how can I extract/export those raitings from the old account “best pratctice”?

The goal is to add those raitings to my new Tidal account. What will be the “best practice” for that?

Once again, thank you so far.

Hello @Bernt_Mansson .

As i understand Your use case is that You want to shift Your favorite albums including star ratings in Roon from one Tidal account to another and then have Roon updated accordingly with the new Tidal account.

In this case You could try this method:

With the Old Tidal account connected to Roon and backup restored with ratings:

  1. In Roon under albums create a focus filter for Your 5 Star albums , 4 Stars ……etc.
  2. Add the result for each rating to a new playlist in Tidal.
  3. On a PC Open up the Old Tidal and the actual Playlist , copy the URL of the PL to the clipboard .
  4. Open the New Tidal in another browser and paste the PL URL into the top/search bar.
  5. Save this PL as a favorite PL in the New Tidal
  6. After shifting Tidal accounts in Roon these Tidal PLs should be available in Roon.
  7. In Roon open up each PL and add a Tag to it ; 5-Star / 4-Star etc
  8. In Roon choose albums and use Focus to filter on the newly added tag ; 5-Star etc.
  9. Mark all the albums (Ctrl A) and give them 5 star rating in Roon.
  10. Repeat for each PL/Rating level.
  • Please note that i am on ARC now and have not verified all steps above. In step 7 i believe that the albums will inherit the tag of the PL that they are included in. If not mark all and add tag directly to the albums.
  • The tags can be removed after finishing the process.
  • Note that Tidal has a hard limit on 10.000 Albums , Tracks in PL etc

Hello,

Thank you very much for your suggestions. Really really good/
I discovered one itsy bitsy problem, not only will my ratings follow, but all the professional ratings too (I only need the ratings I have added to Roon) right now I am a bit stuck in this

All the best,

Bernt

I am replying to my own reply. It looks like that the editorial ratings… I can’t excape them. I don’t want them, only my own personal ratings. Those are the ones I would like to backup and then of course restore to my new Tidal account.
Here I found a person with a similar problem like mine:

Pick the feature suggestion that fits best and has the most votes, and vote for it. (Sort the search results by Relevance if it isn’t)

https://community.roonlabs.com/search?context=topic&context_id=284024&q=%23feedback%3Afeature-suggestions%20rating&skip_context=true

Hey @Bernt_Mansson,

We’re glad to see you were able get your ratings back! @Suedkiez is correct with your additional request - we hope you do cast your vote for any feature you’d like to see.

Happy listening! :drum: :notes:

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