Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Thread Like Summary - MQA/local file preference buggy?

Been having a weird problem recently with Roon.

For a while, I've kept local copies of recordings I already owned on the ROCK internal drive, alongside MQA versions of the same file streamed from Tidal.

This used to work in that I'd add the Tidal album to the library, then set the MQA version as the primary version. Fine.

The other day, I noticed for the first time, that the local file was playing instead and that I couldn't add the MQA version to the library from the iPhone app, nor remove the local album from duplicates. On the Mac version of Roon, I could add the MQA file to the library which then set it as the primary version, but back on the iPhone I usually use for remote, the local file still persisted as the one playing, and the one set as primary.

In the end I had to resort to deleting the local file, in which case the MQA from Tidal stayed as the pimary version, and played OK.

Today, searching for a different album with the same setup, I can see both albums in the search results. The local file sets itself as the primary, despite my having previously set the Tidal MQA as primary, in this case, if I select the MQA version, the local file disappears completely as an option under the 'versions' tab.

This seems odd/buggy behaviour all round, is anyone else experiencing this? I don't really want to have to physically delete/remove local files to de-dup, or prefer the Tidal MQA - for one thing, it's useful to demo MQA to friends, etc.

That would be one for the Roon forum support section.

Have you re re booted your Roon core? Always a good start.