It is common for individual songs to become unavailable on streaming services. This means that these tracks are no longer available in the playlists that have been created. However, very often it is only a change of the album or version of the same album and for this reason you have to manually find the track again and replace it with the existing track in the playlist. It would be a good improvement of Roon if the replacement title would be suggested automatically.
There’s at least one thread open for this suggestion already.
Hey @AE67 ,
We totally get your frustration with albums being removed from your TIDAL account due to licensing changes. We’re music lovers as well, it’s happened to all of us for as long as there’s been streaming music. My most memorable case of this was with the Super Deluxe Edition of Fresh Cream. The mono mixes of that early Cream stuff is where it’s at! No donut hole in mix there, what a muscular sound! Nope, gone. And not just gone from my streaming either, gone everywhere. It took me month…
Suedkiez
August 4, 2022, 6:00pm
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And here the same for Qobuz including a discussion of how to transfer metadata edits from the unavailable album to the new one
Recently a rather worrying amount of my library has been removed from Qobuz.
Is there a way of focusing on these in Roon? It’s driving me mad.
And another post by me about this severe issue about metadata edits
I understand that the problem of finding these albums and replacing them automatically is very difficult. At least users can re-search and add them again if they find them missing, though it’s not ideal.
However, metadata edits are lost on the unavailable album and one has to redo them on the new one, which is a lot of work and probably impossible for many people. This kind of defeats the whole Roon feature of allowing edits of streaming content - a really good and important one. This problem …
Suedkiez
August 4, 2022, 6:02pm
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@crowlem I wrote in the Qobuz thread linked above that I would tag you when I write a feature request. Haven’t gotten around to it, but I guess this one is close enough
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Thanks for letting me know, voted.
Hopefully we can get this up high on the list.
@Alex_Reusch you should vote on your idea.
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let’s combine Votes here (the same problem, but not only focused on Playlists
I agree with the OP Roon needs to list what it’s deleted. I posted a similar ticket last night. I keep getting loads of deleted files in the first section, hundreds over the last month. I want to know what these are. I have not changed my storage path and don’t delete from Roon or the drive attached to my ROCK. Its likely streaming services removing stuff from their catalogues but I need to know. I am loosing 30 albums worth at a time in some cases, this is a lot to loose from a collection strea…
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