Oh No! Not Metadata Again

[Jazzfan_NJ (Listening to JAZZ since 1972!)]

Sorry to say that Roon’s struggles with metadata, or lack thereof, continue on with no endpoint in sight.

Team Roon has clearly stated in the past that Roon can only provide metadata that is available from third party sources, such as Qobuz and Tidal, so if there is no metadata on Qobuz or Tidal then there will be no metadata provided in Roon. Okay that seems quite reasonable and something that I can live with even if I don’t like it.

Today while looking for some credits for a jazz recording (Naoya Ogura - Colors of a Journey) that I posted to “Now Playing Some Jazz [2026]” thread, I discovered that while neither Qobuz nor Roon provides any credits for this recording, there are full and very detailed credits provided on Tidal. So why hasn’t this metadata been added to Roon in the almost two months since the recording was released.? Please explain, thank you.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Jazzfan_NJ

Team Roon has clearly stated in the past that Roon can only provide metadata that is available from third party sources, such as Qobuz and Tidal, so if there is no metadata on Qobuz or Tidal then there will be no metadata provided in Roon.

Um, no. Roon gets metadata from MusicBrainz and TiVo.

Regarding Tidal, they have stated that they don’t get credits from them:

Credits of musicians and other personnel

Roon displays information sourced from our metadata providers. It’s worth noting that TIDAL doesn’t share their credits data with us. The amount of data available varies from one recording to another, and sometimes we may have more data than TIDAL, while in other cases, they might have more information than us.

(I don’t know about other, non-credit metadata from Tidal or what they get from Qobuz)

[Jazzfan_NJ (Listening to JAZZ since 1972!)]

Thanks for clearing things up a bit. Much appreciated.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

I know it doesn’t help solve the problem though

[Jazzfan_NJ (Listening to JAZZ since 1972!)]

Maybe when Harmon buys Tidal the problem will get fixed.