Qobuz favorites and disappearing tags; how to handle going forward?

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The recent Qobuz issue and fix for incorrect Date Added information has brought up a new issue for me (more serious than the Date Added issue, at least for me).

Before the recent fix, whenever a Qobuz title in my Roon library became unavailable, it remained in my library until I manually replaced it with a new version. The advantage of this was I could identify unidentified titles (through Tracks > Focus > +Available > -Available), add the new version to my library (if available), and manually transfer any tags I applied to the new version before deleting the old unavailable version. Although a bit of a clunky process, it assured I didn’t lose the tags I applied. Of course, the downside was original added date and number of plays info was lost. Not ideal, but I rely on tags far more than added dates and play counts.

With the recent Date Added fix from Qobuz, it now appears Qobuz automatically deletes and replaces unavailable titles in the background. While the Date Added info is preserved (yay!), all tags are lost (boo!). The big issue for me is that this means it is no longer possible for me to identify which titles were replaced (and see what tags I applied) so that I can apply my tags to the new versions. This leaves tagging Qobuz titles in my Roon library (a supposed big benefit of streaming service integration with Roon) practically useless since tag info can be lost at any time without the ability to identify affected titles. Since I use tags frequently, this is a big issue for me. As it is now, the value of Qobuz integration has been greatly diminished.

Ideally, Roon would automatically transfer user applied tags when unavailable titles are replaced, but that has been requested for years with no response from Roon, so I don’t see that happening any time soon, if ever.

I’m curious how others here plan to deal with this? Is there some kind of workaround with which I’m not familiar?

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I don’t know yet how to deal with it because, as I wrote in the other thread, the results I believe to have seen with the date fix so far seemed very inconsistent and several different things seem to have happened to different albums. So I’ll wait and see how it shakes out. If what you wrote is the new normal, I don’t see any way to properly deal with it and I guess I’ll just live with it and fix albums if I notice them. Not great, but what can you do. In this case, Roon really should go the whole way and provide some sort of solution

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Actually, it was possible to manually change the Qobuz date added as well. It was a bit hidden because it was in the track editor, not more intuitively in the album editor, but it was there, still is. My understanding also is that although the play counts are gone, their history is still influencing things like recommendations.

If no auto-transfer of tags is possible or the resources are not there, or whatever the reason, this new behaviour should probably have been a configurable “switch”. Some don’t care much about tags except the date sorting but others do and may well prefer the previous behaviour where they could fix things manually at their leisure. It doesn’t seem on the face of it a big change to provide some kind of configuration switch but of course you never know what is going on under the hood.

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Is this an EA change, or specific to Qobuz? (I know the date issue was Qobuz, but updating Roon with an alternative version and retaining play history seems like something on the Roon side.)

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There was no known change in EA but various things happened

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