ROON help needed

I feel your pain. 

It's not easy when you first move from Tidal to Roon. Roon does load a whole pile of albums, and I think you will appreciate that feature later.

Like any software, there is a learning curve. Roon gets frustrating when one runs into problems. One more or less needs to familiarize themselves with the software and the support forum. Good news is that Roon itself or another member usually come to the rescue.

Roon 'IS' and offers so Much More than Tidal ... which I believe you will appreciate as you get more comfortable with it. If you want to keep things very simple and straightforward, then it may be better to stick with Tidal direct.

You have 60 days to figure it out. You can always come back to it, in the future if you find it too much at present.

I'll likely move to a lifetime membership once my current yearly membership runs out. So I'm not coming at this from an 'anti' Roon perspective.

@david_ten...Thanks so much for your comments.  I really appreciate it.  I think I might not have this setup right.  I've been trying to get this to work correctly, but it just seems to not do anything that I would use.

I'll keep trying.

Upon initial launch, Roon offers you the option to import premade libraries of various genres into your library collection. You obviously clicked yes to preload your library up with many of their additional recommended album collections.

Roon is the best software out there for music listening. Unfortunately it requires some thought when setting up, I suggest a fresh install.

I like the way roon also automatically adds music when your playlist ends - all based on your library and the style of music in your playlist. The options for playback and the amount of configuration available is astounding. 

To get the most from Roon you need to set it up RoonServer "headless" on a PC that connects to internet for Tidal and accesses your music library (mine is around 3 TeraByte and sits on a USB drive connected to a mac mini). You should then use a tablet like an iPad to run Roon remote and access your collection and online library from Tidal as well as all the artist background and credit details as well as lyrics and even internet radio...

@shadorne...thanks for your input.  The more I try to use this, it just doesn't seem to be working right.  The Roon interface seems to be the same as Tidal?  I don't see anything additional from the Tidal interface and the Roon interface.

I will try your suggestion of a fresh reinstall.

You should no longer need to ever run Tidal once Roon is setup. Roon just accesses Tidal using your Tidal credentials - everything should be selected and played from within Roon. If you like a Tidal album then just add it to your library from within Roon and it becomes part if your Roon library. Any music files on your harddrive will add automatically upload to your Roon library provided they are in the designated folder(s) you setup in Roon.

Roon does nothing to affect your harddrive music library - it does not move musuc around. However you can delete music files  if you wish - Roon will warn you if you try to delete albums or tracks because this is permanent.