I’m new to Roon and Tidal, and just discovered this issue - it basically ruins hip-hop and punk because the annoying noise that’s used to censor explicit lyrics makes the songs unlistenable.
If I go to the Tidal website and pick, for example, Nas’ Illmatic album - I can listen to the uncensored version fine… but not on Roon.
How do we enable the uncensored/unedited songs on Tidal? This is quite literally a deal-breaker for Tidal use with Roon - it’s simply not worth $20/month for edited/censored music with no option for the unedited music.
That didn’t work, but enabling “Settings / General / Show Hidden Tracks and Albums” causes Roon to display an “Other versions” button for the album that offers two versions of the album: one is censored, the other is not.
Unfortunately there’s no way to see which version is which - trial and error required.
So, not ideal but at least there’s a workaround. I’d still love to see an option in the Tidal settings for “enable/disable explicit album versions”.
There is one other alternative I recently found after dealing with the same issue.
If you go directly into the Tidal interface and add the explicit version of an album into your library, when you listen to it through Roon, it will play the explicit version. A bit annoying, but a somewhat permanent solution for your favorite explicit albums that you want to save to your library for easy access.
I too would prefer to have only an Explicit version of an album show up if there is a ‘clean’ or ‘edited’ duplicate. I am using Roon 1.3 so I was expecting this issue resolved. Having to manually favorite albums really is a poor workaround.
Yes, I see that layout. I think that my feature request would be hiding the non-Explicit version if an Explicit version exists. In the example you posted, there is really only one album, named “The Chief”, there are just two versions of that album. Roon already merges ‘remastered’ albums over the original.
Another quirk is sometimes you still have over two TIDAL albums for a single album. For Snoop Dogg you can see 3 albums for Doggystyle. Even the sorting of Explicit albums seems inconsistent. The Snoop Dogg albums have another issue where the Explicit version is missing all the “Play Picks”, yet the middle ‘clean’ album has “Play Picks”. I’m still trying to sort out what are Roon quirks and what are Tidal issues.
