I’m sure you’ve already found Focus but, if not, you can display all your albums in the Album Browser and click on the Focus button at the top left of the screen. There you can select Format, then MP3 and AAC.
That way, you can see all your lossy albums. You can then select each one, click the 3 dots icon and then Go to Tidal Version, if available.
You can then Add to Library, the Tidal version. Roon will always show the better quality album and hide the lossy duplicate.
I have found Focus but haven’t explored it fully - I have only used it to show my FLAC files that I just ripped so they are all in a nice list so I can easily check them out opposed to hunting down artists / albums by name. I’m going to try what you suggested! That’s sounds like a really quick way to sub TIDAL versions in for lossy versions.
I love my speakers too… no words! classe ca-401 and ssp-25. I’m just transitioning from CD player to computer system. I’m still learning about what works best and how things sound. I picked up a bluesound Node 2 as kinda of an experiment to get me started with Roon and lossless sources while I learn and listening - (Node 2 -> digital signal -> ssp).
I’m really enjoying Roon, you guys did / doing a great job.
I’m actually not a Roon employee, just a volunteer moderator and knowledge base editor. However, I do know the Roon guys appreciate the fact you’re enjoying the software.
here the same, give Edward Elgar a try and Sir Edward Elgar, very few albums available on Roon compared to Tidal. Roon didn’t show a Portrait foto of Sir Edgar Elgar!?
Where did I lost the track?
I see this topic split and that thread was closed. But I’m still seeing this issue.
I follow an external forum and saw a bunch of recommendations, many of which are listed as on Tidal. I subscribed to the trial, but am often NOT finding the album at all, or it is incomplete. After discussions with the OP, I downloaded the desktop version of Tidal, and lo! there is the full album.
It seems like this should be a major issue, but I see it has been around since IIRC, 2015. Really?
If I search for ‘Van Morrison’ I get a long list, but not the album I’m looking for.
If I search for ‘Joey Defracesco’ and view all, I DID find the whole album. I’m not sure what I did differently, but why can’t I simply serach for the album name and get the whole album?
I have found a couple of nuances that seem (to me at least) counter-intuitive. In the intial saerch screen, I had used the ‘view all’ button, not realizing that there are SEPARATE ‘view all’ buttons for library and for TIDAL.
The search results that are returned are (agin IMHO) very confusing:
Note the titles that appear first; they are subsets of the serach term. I have to scroll the the 24th album before I get a title starting with You’re"!!!
And lo! Title number THIRTYSEVEN is the one that I want and actually about the fourth with an exact match.
I hope you can see why I’m finding this irritating!
We have some work in progress that’s designed for cases like this, to ensure we return the most relevant search results. Will be a little while before it goes live, but this is something we’re actively working to improve.
In the meantime, in cases like this, you’re probably going to do better searching for “Van Morrison” and finding the album on his page rather than searching for something like “You’re Driving Me Crazy” which is going to match hundreds of albums. Again that’s just a workaround – the changes underway should help us return significantly more relevant results.
Still no improvement in regard of full TIDAL albums ?
I used 1-year licenses in the last years, but I was not satisfied with the TIDAL streaming content over ROON, so didn´t bought a further license in the last years.
Now I am testing ROON again and my impression is, that this problem isn’t solved. I can find albums easy in the TIDAL app, but not in ROON Tidal.
Could you confirm this issue ? Is it still a problem and why is there no improvement after years ROON is available ?
Nothings really changed. There is a whole thread about improving the search functionality which Roons Execs have commented on saying they are working on this and they know the current search is lacking. Not what you want to hear but that’s where it’s still at.
