Good morning,
I’ve been looking for a way to organize my albums in Flac.
Well, I digitized all my 5,000 CDs in Flac.
Many of the CDs I have are not available on Tidal or Qobuz.
What I would like to do is to be able to separate them so that I can keep track of the CDs that are not yet available on Tidal or Qobuz, until one day they are available on the platform.
But I can’t find a way to look at each CD I have in my library and put them in a separate list, and then I would have access to the list of everything I have physically and also that is on Tidal.
And I would have a list of what I have physically but is not yet available on Stream.
Has anyone managed to think of a way to organize this in Roon?
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I used the “focus” feature in Roon to look at storage locations (Tidal vs local). Then made bookmarks of the results so that I could look at what I have locally and also what I had in Tidal. I have since canceled Tidal so can’t show you what I did.
You might also take a look a the “Smart Playlists Feature” it would update dynamically for the “filter” that you set up.
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Thanks for your help,
I use Focus, but it can’t give me separate lists. If I insert what I have physically into Tidal, it will show everything mixed up in Tidal and I also can’t tell what I have physically and isn’t on Stream.
The second option you mentioned, curiously, doesn’t appear available in my Roon. I don’t know if it’s something that might be disabled, but New Smart Playlist doesn’t appear for me.
There is an option that would be possible, which is to use TAGS, but I had a problem recently when I had to reinstall Roon. Despite having a Backup and doing the recovery, the TAGS were simply lost. I don’t know if I did something wrong or if Roon really doesn’t backup TAGS. Maybe someone can clarify this.
Thank you.
It definitely does. Restoring a backup should restore everything in the Roon database to the state from the time of the backup.
Though there’s also not much to do wrong, other than creating and restoring the backup.
yes… I agree that this is what should have happened when I tried again, and now I’m afraid of losing everything. Maybe I should start working with TAGS first and test this again and see if everything goes back to how it was before. Thanks for your help.
Oops, yeah the smart playlists are only in early access right now. Sorry forgot they were not in the production version yet.
They way I got my Tidal vs local listings was to use focus by storage location:
As i said I don’t have Tidal anymore but you should have an option for Tidal as a storage location on your focus list. Once you activate the “Tidal” filter it should only show you what you have in Tidal on the view you are looking at.
In my case it only shows what I have in my ROCK (which are my local files):
Again not really sure what you want from this but you could select all the albums from the focus and export an excel spreadsheet of your Tidal albums and then another one of your local albums. Then put both lists in the same excel file (different sheets) and do data analysis to see what album titles are in both lists and/or what titles are unique to either list.
Hi,
I figured out a way to se all my 2,836 out of 17,903 albums on my hard drive that are not available on my Tidal/Qobuz subscriptions.
I Roon tagged each album individually that didn’t have a corresponding Tidal/Qobuz release with this tag N/A Streaming.
It was a long process with such a large library.
After I finished, I created a Roon bookmark N/A Streaming from the tag.
Click on the bookmark and all the non streaming albums show up.
Don forget to back up you data base (DB) so you don’t lose this on Roon.
If and when Tidal/Qobuz adds this release album you can remove the tag which automatically removes from your custom bookmark.
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Thank you for your help, from what I understand, you created a TAG with all the CDs you have physically and then you cataloged them one by one and separated in a TAG what you had on Tidal or Qobuz. Is that it?