This is untrue. Roon will play local / higher quality versions if they match.
If you are in a situation where you think this is happening, then your local copy lacks an equivalence to the album Roon Radio chose to play from.
For example, you might be in this situation if:
- if your local content is high resolution, but it has not been identified by Roon and populated with metadata.
- if your local content is from a different edition, print, remastering, etc… basically, if the album has been identified, but was identified as something different.
- if your local content was misidentified as a different edition, print, remastering, etc from the album on which Roon Radio chose to play content
- if you Roon Radio decided to play a different edition, print, remastering, etc from what you have in your library.
There is a lot of places where this can not match up, but in the cases where it does match up, it’ll prefer the higher quality local content.
@soundserge – the way to confirm that actual equivalence has been achieved is to visit the album that was played from tidal and look in the versions tab to see if your local files are listed.