Keep albums in library if they become unavailable on streaming services

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Seems like the Roon devs are aware of it too, but ~5 years on and the issue still exists

Tidal - Disappearing Albums

Yes. I found 61 out of approx. 700 of my UK TIDAL favourites have silently had their playback rights removed. It was painfully slow going through them all in TIDAL’s app to find them (no hover-over play button) and replace them. Intriguingly and annoyingly, I was able to replace the vast majority of removed albums with like-for-like equivalents, which suggests that TIDAL has been doing some housekeeping which involves deprecating certain IDs and replacing them with new ones.

Having a reliable catalogue / library outside of a given streaming service seems like one of the key features of Roon. Not only do you lose any metadata or edits you have manually made, but it also causes havoc with user generated playlists.

Fair enough if the track gets removed from or replaced by a streaming service — that’s outside Roon control. But at least let me view those ‘dead’ or ‘replaced’ albums in Roon and let me fix them manually (in one or two clicks) or ideally automatically.