Quicker Tidal new album availability

[dabassgoesboomboom]

I use the Tidal iOS/Desktop app and a Bluesound Node 2i (Airplay 2) for exactly this (for fresh new releases).

It’s been a weekly issue for me, for years.

The technical reason/s why you may need to wait up to 2 days for it to show in Roon is here:

@brian

They put something into their database and it becomes available via their API (which is used by the TIDAL app and Audirvana) immediately.

Up up to 24 hours passes before they begin dumping that data out of into a feed for us. That dumping process takes about 3 hours. Then we can start downloading it.

At this point, 3-27 hours have passed since the data hit TIDAL’s API. Then we can start processing it, which takes the remaining ~1/3 of the time.

Something is “late” and merits investigation somewhere in the vicinity of the 40 hour mark.