Is Tidal in trouble?

[Geoff_Coupe]

It seems not to be important to Roon to integrate other services than Tidal. If this is due to contractual conditions with Tidal or anything else is unclear.

That seems to be a big assumption on your part. From what Danny has said, a major reason would seem to be that none of the other services are prepared to meet Roon’s requirements for integration.

Roon Music Service API

The API we were thinking about was simple stuff about transport controls and basic stack of what data we have, for list based navigation A third party music service API would not work, as to get the magic we do with TIDAL, we needed their entire db backend delivered daily. They were the only service to give this to us, and we’ve asked Spotify, Deezer, Rara, Rhapsody, Qobuz, and many others. This is why most players service integration feels like a bolt on and Roon’s seamlessly integrates TIDAL …