If you add a Collection from Tidal, it will add a collection of Albums. The fact that you’re seeing the artist is a result of an album being added. For example, if I don’t have any 2Pac albums in my collection and I add one of his albums, the album will show and the artist will be found in the Artist Browser.
The collection will create a Tag that will be visible in the Tags Browser. Also, as @Carl mentioned, you can go to the Albums Browser and focus on the Tag there.
Can you go into the Tags Browser and post a screenshot of what you see?
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But I do remember something. The very very first time I installed Roon I did select some genres in Tidal, not knowing what it would do, my guess was it was used for suggestions
[/quote]That’s it … by selecting genres Roon primed your library with a selection of Tidal albums.
[quote=“Ernst_Meijer, post:23, topic:7234”]
Could it be that, even though I uninstalled Roon a lot of times, this setting is stored somewhere in your backend database? Feels a bit like that, since reinstalling does not affect it what so ever.
[/quote]Roon creates a database on your PC, uninstalling the Roon application does not remove the database.
Thus when Roon is reinstalled it picks up right where it left off.
The database has to be removed manually, the Roon Knowedge Base describes how … it’s well worth a read … check it out.
Well, that did the trick
Thx guys, great support! (on to my next support request then
But on a serious note. I have read multiple complaints about this behaviour and it is not commenly known.
My guess is that all people complaining about Tidal artist being auto added did exactly the same thing I did,
add a couple of genres not knowing the impact. it might be a good idea to add the ‘Tidal cleanup’ as an uninstall option.
I was under the impression deleting database & setting would take care of that,
Oh dear, does not sound good.
The missing albums are they from local audio files or from Tidal? If local, can you check if they are still on your hard disk.
Can you briefly but accurately describe each step you performed to remove the Tidal collections.
(I’m trying to establish any deviation).
Can you check in Roon’s Setting --> Services that you Tidal account is active.
Also can post screen shots of Roon’s Settings --> Storage.
Hi Carl
Thanks for the quick response.
My audio files were from CD rips and Qobus/HDTracks downloads, located on an AudioStore unit with SSD and 3Tb drive, which is connected to my hifi by USB. I control this from my iPad Pro in the lounge and access them from my iMac / Meridian Explorer2 in my study.
I right clicked on a Tidal album in Roon, then hit ctrl+a, which seemed to highlight the Tidal albums. I then went to Edit in Roon and scrolled down to delete albums. I thought this would just delete the Tidal albums but as soon as I did this, I was worried due to heavy hard drive activity! All my stored music seem to have gone.
Yes, Tidal is active.
I’m away from the system at the moment but the Roon settings show the file path to my AudioStore.
Luckily, they are backed up on my NAS but all my recent changes are gone.
Kind regards
Bob
I just set up roon for the first time and ran into an issue with roon adding hundreds of albums into my own library. During the set up process it asked what my music interests were, then when I added my Tidal account it took all the ‘interests’ and added all albums in Tidal under those genres and added them to my library.
Now unless i’m mistaken the fastest way to remove all of these albums from my library is to go through all my albums one by one in tidal (because deleting all the albums from roon takes around 3-4 sub menus) and then re-syncing.
Surely this is a unintended behaviour that needs to be fixed?
Use the Focus Format button and check “Tidal”, and then
Click twice on the list of albums to close down the Focus dialogues; you’re then left with the display of just the Tidal albums. Right-click on the first album, then hold shift while right-clicking on the last; that selects all the albums (this is using the standard key shortcuts on Windows). Alternatively, select all the albums at once by just using Ctrl-A (also a standard Windows shortcut).
Click the Edit button - top right of the Roon window.
At the bottom of the Album Options tab in the Album editor is the Delete Albums button. This will remove the Tidal albums from your library.
One question. Ist IT possible that when connecting Roon with tidal there are dozens of Albums added to the Album favourites of tidal? How can i get rid of that?
