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I am a bit confused about the number and selection of albums Roon is cataloguing.

It seems to be selecting multiple TIDAL albums that I have not down loaded - over 800 in all, whereas I have only downloaded about 100 from Tidal so far - what's this about? How is this selection being made. The resultant "library" contains all kinds of things I am not interested in.

I also not the genres are very strangely mixed

Thanks
Regards
Huw

PS I am moving to Roon Section

Huw

Might be better asking on the Roon forum.

Cheers

Russ

Do you have favourited tracks in TIDAL? If you do, it will result in lots of partial albums in your library.

I see the merit of having these tracks imported - they are music that you have explicitly expressed and interest in - but I don't like seeing the partial albums.

I've raised this with the Roon developers and one possible solution in a future build would be the option to hide these albums.

I rarely use tracks because I don't want to create more muddle in my library - I like it simple just with albums - of course there are sometimes exceptions but that's my general practice.

Thanks regards, Huw

On Roon I am very curious because it's not analysing my entire album portfolio (core). My music is 99% resident on my Sooloos C15 and TwinStore - Approximately 4300 albums.

Roon sees a selection of these - but a mere 825, of which there are a huge number of TIDAL albums that I have never actually downloaded, which is very odd.

Strangely this pm TIDAL went off line and Roon then could then only see 95 albums. Roon never sees any Rhapsody albums on my Sooloos nor the greater part of the Core.

There is a lot of new things here to get one's head around and with poor bandwidth it's a real challenge.

I am far from agreeing with some other HH's that Roon is ready to take over from Sooloos - seems to me we are some way from that - at least based on my personal experience so far.

Many Thanks
Regards
Huw

Huw

Rhapsody albums are not downloaded to Sooloos, you stream them, therefore Roon will not see them. Have you exported all your library in native FLAC and then used that as the watched folder for Roon?

iCloud photo syncing is configurable, you can just turn it off iCloud How To.

Cheers

Russ

OK get that but why does Roon see TIDAL - is it not the same?

Room sees not only those I have downloaded but hundreds of others I have not downloaded.

Roon is only seeing a fraction my Core.

Regards Huw

Tidal is incorporated into Roon, like it is in Sooloos.

Roon can't read Sooloos Core properly, the files need exporting elsewhere as FLAC and monitored by Roon from that location.

It's incorporated in a way that is much more than Sooloos in operation. Chris

As Russ also asked... are you watching your Sooloos core or an export of your Sooloos library?

The latter is the recommended route at the moment.

Yes, but not much use to me if I am missing 75% of my core - of which only 25% is Rhapsody.

I can see the potential in Roon but it has a long way to go - especially for Sooloos owners. Shall we forget the money we invested?

Regards Huw

Sorry I am not up to exporting 4300 albums just to facilitate Roon it's not that compelling.
Regards
Huw