Music provider priority

[sad-error]

It would be great if there was a way to choose provider priority. I know the Usage and Notes say that MA is supposed to provide the highest quality possible, but I think this isn't the case - case in point, my MA will gladly stream lossy spotify over flac tidal of the same song. If this cannot be made more robust, an option to arrange providers by preference would be very welcome.

I am attaching a screenshot of a scenario where MA clearly knows it has better quality in other versions but will still stream the lossy version.

[marcelveldt]

Provider details only shows spotify so it cant stream Tidal.
Only if you add an item to the library we will lookup and match all providers, we will not do / can not do that automatically

[sad-error]

I am confused - I did not add this to the library manually, it was part of the radio and was automatically found on spotify - so why not on tidal, if it's there? Actually, all the songs that are part of a radio are streamed from spotify unless they are on the local drive. The provider settings on this window show only the source where it's currently playing from, it seems?

[OzGav]

You are looking at a track from the Spotify provider, that is, it is not in your library. You didn’t provide enough context before, so it seems you are using radio mode. What was the first track that you started radio mode on and how did you find it? Was it in your library?

[marcelveldt]

We can't auto match everything as we will burn too many api calls. Only your "favorite" tracks, added to the library, are matched.

[sad-error]

We can't auto match everything as we will burn too many api calls. Only your "favorite" tracks, added to the library, are matched.

I understand the api limitations and that makes sense, but when I click on play radio, 99% of the tracks come from spotify. The only way for me to get tracks from tidal seems to be by removing spotify from providers alltogether - is there a way for it to prioritize tidal?

[sad-error]

The (reproducible, at least for me) steps are these - go to the search field, search for an artist, click on any. Under the artists, the provider details are listed as spotify, jellyfin and tidal, in this order. Click on the blue play arrow, select play radio. All the tracks in the radio are either streamed from spotify or jellyfin, very few from tidal, even though in most of the songs when I go to show info, there are clearly tidal versions listed as well.

[OzGav]

Did you select a tidal track to begin with?

[sad-error]

Did you select a tidal track to begin with?

I did not select any track, I click on the play radio from the artist's page.

[OzGav]

So you are seeding the radio mode with an artist. When you do the search you will likely see results from multiple providers for the artist. Are you selecting the tidal version of the artist?

[sad-error]

Ah I think I see what's going on. I open the artist in the library, and it seems that the library for this has been automatically populated mostly with spotify songs - I'm assuming it's pulling liked songs from spotify and adding them to the library when I add the provider? With some other artists I don't have this problem and will mostly pull songs from tidal.