Question about the GUI

[Georg]

This information is not missing from every album.

Thanks.

[Arlen]

The signal path shows you the path of the signal, from start to end. Tidal is the start.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

And the Tidal badge is not placed on the cover because it does this only in the My Albums overview to help with selection (if this feature is enabled).

In other views, the assumption is probably that people want to see the unspoiled cover.

[Mr.Flibble]

With some clients, the bitrate/sample rate show with the service logo like this

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

What clients? Not for me on macOS (and I have all badges enabled in Browsing Preferences)

EDIT: Found it. You have to go to the separete settings for the Now Playing view (gearwheel top right while you are in Now Playing) and then enable Show Track Format.

[Georg]

This is already enabled. As mentioned previously, this information is not missing from every album:

[Mr.Flibble]

@Suedkiez

What clients?

Good question. IDK

Not sure why I wrote that. I think I meant to write the now playing screen, but got sidetracked with nagging children.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Georg

As mentioned previously, this information is not missing from every album:

I see. Is the format info displayed in the album view of the affected albums? This format info is just text that comes from Tidal, and sometimes it is wrong or missing. While the signal path shows the actual format after extracting and analyzing it during playback.

EDIT: Hmm, the format info is indeed missing from Tidal and doesn’t show on the album page, either. So that explains it:

(I have Qobuz too, and the format text string exists in the Qobuz version and is properly displayed in the Now Playing view)

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

The format string missing from Tidal albums is a long story. It stems from the time of Tidal replacing MQA with regular FLAC files. It was not possible for Roon to rescan all 100+ million tracks at once, so the idea was that every time an album is actually played by a Roon user, the info would be extracted and added to the database. However, this then didn’t work apparently for a long time, or not for all albums. There was IIRC more than one thread about it and I don’t know what the state of this is:

Tidal albums without any bit depth information?

Hi, I often encounter albums on Tidal that don’t show any info on the bit depth or sampling rate. Is this a Tidal issue or a Roon issue ? Never had the issue with Qobuz. Anything I can do about this ? Here’s an example: [image]

[Georg]

@Suedkiez

I see. Is the format info displayed in the album view of the affected albums? This format info is just text that comes from Tidal, and sometimes it is wrong or missing. While the signal path shows the actual format after extracting and analyzing it during playback.

The format info is not displayed in the album view:

It is difficult to understand, why this information is not then taken from the signal path and displayed.

Thanks.

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@Georg

It is difficult to understand, why this information is not then taken from the signal path and displayed.

See my other post directly above yours

[Georg]

@Suedkiez

See my other post directly above yours

Thanks, that explains a lot. Tidal is very neglected in Roon.