I posted previously and the latest ROON update just bandages the issue, at most. So many other posts with the issue. Gotta drop roon to stop this inconsistency with playback. Its totally a problem and becoming a big joke
Roon won’t play Qobuz tracks consistently
That’s because the underlying issue is in Qobuz. And they are getting there:
You could switch to TIDAL. No issues with streaming, wrong import dates etc. Even a trial may get you past the current “glitch”.
And switching to Tidal will lose any Roon data like playcounts, tags, Roon favorites, edits. In case you care for those. Nor is it a guarantee that Tidal won’t have any temporary issues in the future.
True. Depends if playing music is more important that those things.
Qobuz / Roon integration caused all sorts of issues with my library a few years ago, and I had to do a reset, so I returned to TIDAL, and have had no issues since (or before.)
Well, I didn’t have an issue of this kind with Qobuz since autumn of 2020 when I started using Roon and Qobuz - in fact I didn’t have one now, I guess I’m lucky with my local CDN.
But as always, there is no issue until there is one, and no service is immune from tech failures. (In fact not long ago we had month long complaints about „Tidal is not updating new releases in Roon, I’m switching to Qobuz“).
Whatever one uses, a fallback is good. Could be some local files, vinyl, Qobuz/Tidal Connect, etc. I’m never short of music I can play while something has a hiccup
Best chance of avoiding the issue is to stop using Roon and use the Qobuz app directly. You can make absolutely sure you can listen to a whole album/opera/symphony/playlist by using the download option to download what you want to listen to into the local Qobuz cache. Then you can listen via Qobuz even without internet. It’s a pity Roon doesn’t support offline listening from the Qobuz cache.
Well that may make sense if you don’t have a large local library…
And if you don’t need Roon. In which cases it is indeed best not to use it. Weird suggestion though
It’s not that Roon doesn’t support it. Instead it’s that Qobuz doesn’t allow it. An important distinction.
Plenty of ways of playing a local library, some with advantages over Roon. And when it comes to Qobuz indeed there are many reasons why you might need Roon, but actually playing the track is kinda fundamental, and if you can’t reliably deliver that … it’s been a month now, patience is finite.
And why is it weird to suggest using Qobuz offline library feature? This enabled me to listen to Bachs St John Passion in its entirety at Easter. Downloading in advance guarantees availability. Roon couldn’t do it.
Yes, but this is the Roon community, and most Roon subscribers (you are not), prefer Roon to the alternatives.
Because you didn’t say this in your opening post.
We’ve tried everything, its feeling like whack a mole. If things dont really improve by the end of April, not sure what we’ll do. Theres really nothing comparable to Roon, but I guess we might need to just pick something
How about taking out a 30 day TIDAL trial to tide you over until the Qobuz issue is resolved?
Also, see this post.
I did! Try reading my opening post!
Even once the current playback issues are fixed, there needs to be a library repair feature that finds all the albums in your collection that have had their links broken, then suggests replacements. We know Roon can find potential replacements for things, because it’s part of the “improve playlist” functionality.
Given how often Qobuz breaks the links to my albums, something to remedy the breakage is sorely neeed.
I suggest you vote for this:
I think this is a new feature currently in Early Access.