I’ve seen lots of Tidal albums listed in Roon as for instance 192/24 but when I add it to my library it shows as mixed formats. See the two screen shots below.
Before adding:
After adding:
I’ve seen this with a lot of albums.
Just curious what’s going on and if anyone else has encountered this.
Thanks
My guess is that it first relies on the info from Tidal, but in fact not every track is 192/24. Maybe Roon looks more closely when you add it to the library.
I haven’t actually played it to see what’s what. I already have a local ALAC version. I’ll just stick with that. You’re probably right about the Tidal data being suspect.
After the Tidal Max change, Roon staff wrote in one of the related threads that Roon can’t check the metadata of all of 100 million Tidal tracks in advance, but the signal path is always right because it checks the actual track PCM, and so Roon will update the metadata information step by step when users actually play the tracks and they receive analysis data. I guess it might be related to that.
I noticed this the other day, 24/96 before adding, mixed formats after adding, but it went back to 24/96 when I removed it from my library. I removed it because there was another 2496 version, and it didn’t have correct volume normalisation. It was Chelsea Wolfe - she reaches out.
