I've been using LMS to listen to a local FLAC library on my Squeezebox Touch devices for many years. I just subscribed to Tidal, upgraded my LMS to 8.0 (official), and I was able to get the music playing in just a few minutes. Thanks so much to those of you who have contributed your time to make this ecosystem what it is.
Outside of LMS, I'm aware that sometimes the Tidal App itself shows duplicate listings for albums. I understand that this is normal and that they're often different masterings, different issues, or similar.
However, within LMS, I've noticed that many albums have listings that simply do not appear in the Tidal App. For example, Depeche Mode's Black Celebration only appears once in the Tidal App. In LMS, it shows up twice, with unique artwork for each listing. Specifically:
Version 1
http://myserver:9000/plugins/wimp/in....1_depeche.0.0.31&player=00%3A04%3A20%3A23%3A7f%3A7c&sess=
Points to this cover art: http://resources.tidal.com/images/80.../1280x1280.jpg This version of the album seems to be unique to LMS. Its artwork seems to be a noisy and skewed scan. Gapless playback does not work properly on this version.
Version 2
http://myserver:9000/plugins/wimp/in....1_depeche.0.0.32&player=00%3A04%3A20%3A23%3A7f%3A7c&sess=
Point to this cover art: http://resources.tidal.com/images/ff.../1280x1280.jpg As far as I can tell, this version of the album is the one appears in the Tidal app. Its artwork seems to be much cleaner and gapless playback does work properly on it.
When playing, both albums report that they're PCM VBR FLAC.
So, with all of that in mind, does anyone know where all of these extra albums come from?
[Edit: I should have pointed out that I'm only talking about the albums available from Tidal within LMS. I have not integrated the online music collection with my locally stored library.]
Outside of LMS, I'm aware that sometimes the Tidal App itself shows duplicate listings for albums. I understand that this is normal and that they're often different masterings, different issues, or similar.
However, within LMS, I've noticed that many albums have listings that simply do not appear in the Tidal App. For example, Depeche Mode's Black Celebration only appears once in the Tidal App. In LMS, it shows up twice, with unique artwork for each listing. Specifically:
Version 1
http://myserver:9000/plugins/wimp/in....1_depeche.0.0.31&player=00%3A04%3A20%3A23%3A7f%3A7c&sess=
Points to this cover art: http://resources.tidal.com/images/80.../1280x1280.jpg This version of the album seems to be unique to LMS. Its artwork seems to be a noisy and skewed scan. Gapless playback does not work properly on this version.
Version 2
http://myserver:9000/plugins/wimp/in....1_depeche.0.0.32&player=00%3A04%3A20%3A23%3A7f%3A7c&sess=
Point to this cover art: http://resources.tidal.com/images/ff.../1280x1280.jpg As far as I can tell, this version of the album is the one appears in the Tidal app. Its artwork seems to be much cleaner and gapless playback does work properly on it.
When playing, both albums report that they're PCM VBR FLAC.
So, with all of that in mind, does anyone know where all of these extra albums come from?
[Edit: I should have pointed out that I'm only talking about the albums available from Tidal within LMS. I have not integrated the online music collection with my locally stored library.]