Missing Tidal Album [explained]

I said this in another place, so I’ll restate it here and then close this out:

This album was released Friday on TIDAL. TIDAL has not yet included the album in the data dumps we have processed. It’ll get there, and it’ll take time. There is nothing I or anyone else can do about this.

Normally we know about new albums in advance, but they are embargoed until a certain date. Then we can have them all ready to go, and just “unlock” them on that date. Sometimes that’s not the case, and the album doesn’t show up until after the release. This is one of those cases.

Sometimes things can slip because the daily dump was delivered late, other times it’s just not in there (probably because it wasnt ready when they generated the dump on their end). These are multi-terabyte database dumps, and everything takes time.

Usually, they show up in 1-2 business days, but we’ve seen it take upwards of a week.

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