[quote=“danny, post:33, topic:6628”]Unfortunately, in many cases TIDAL can’t tell anyone about a release until it goes out to the public, including its partners. This is a requirement from the record labels.
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Different labels / albums = Different release criteria, it’s a comersial constraint which affects:
- When Tidal update their systems.
- When Tidal publish their updated data.
Then Roon asynchronously to Tidal:
- Ingests all of the Tidal data
- Cross references it with all the metadata Roon has access to.
- Builds the matrix
- Validates the results
- Publishes to its subscribers
Roon performs this entire process every few days. Due to the huge amount of data being processed it is not possible to significantly reduce the cycle time.
Now that said, the Roon devs know that the current latency leads to issues with new releases, and a ‘fast track’ auxiliary process is also required to manage new releases. This process does not exist at present, hence the recent discussions with Tidal to identify what can practically be achieved with collaboration.
EDIT: I drafted my reply before Danny re-posted.