Thought I would share a strange coincidence with Van Morrison's latest album, Roll with the Punches.
Bought it in high RHS from HD Tracks UK. But it refused to download, the first time I have ever had an issue with downloads from HDTracks. After repeated attempts to download it, I contactedHDTracks support, they couldn't fix it and promptly refunded my money.
Then tried to have a listen to the same album on Tidal HiFi. The album cover is displayed in Tidal, but when I try to play it, there are no tracks to play.
So I am beginning to wonder whether or not Van the Man has actually delivered very a new album or whether it's all doing digital trickery......
Thoughts appreciated......
paul
Posted on: 30 September 2017 by PBenny1066
Thanks Steve. Very strange, still unable to play it in Tidal, even though the album shows up. Tap it and get "0 tracks added". Everything else plays fine. Anyone else having trouble ?
Posted on: 30 September 2017 by Hmack
Paul,
It's not just you. I don't have a copy of the album on my local network, but have just tried streaming it on Tidal via my Linn Klimax DS/1.
I too cannot play the album, although the cover art and tracks are displayed as though it should be there. The message I get on my Linn Kazoo control app is "Failed to add track" when I try to play the whole album, and "Track not available" when I try to play each individual track.
Looks like there is a problem at the Tidal end.
Posted on: 30 September 2017 by ChrisSU
If I try to play the album on iOS, I get a message saying 'none of the tracks are allowed to be streamed by the record labels.'
Makes you wonder why they bother to list it. Possibly related to your location?
Posted on: 30 September 2017 by PBenny1066
Thanks for the feedback. Really weird, especially when the HD Tracks download also fails. Indeed, sounds like a location issue to me....
Posted on: 30 September 2017 by Hmack
Just noticed that a few tracks from the album are listed separately as individual tracks when I enter a search on Tidal for Van Morrison, and these tracks do play properly and sound very good indeed. Looks as though it's probably just a very temporary glitch in Tidal & the whole album should be available soon.
The individual tracks I can see with a search are "Bring it on home to me", "Goin' to Chicago" and "Transformation".
In fact these tracks sound so good on Tidal that I will shortly be downloading the hi-res album for myself from Qobuz.
