Ability to change cover/icon for playlists

I have made up a bunch of playlists. Qudos for Roon now being able to deselect “show global playlists”

Currently, the cover/icon for the playlists consists of the album art for the first track in that playlists. I would like to be able to change this to something customised.

Thanks!

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Eventually we’d like to allow editing of playlist cover image and even adding descriptions for playlists. No work on this is scheduled yet but it is something we’re thinking about.

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After spending an extraordinary 3 hours at a The Cure 2016 tour concert I have created playlists from the concert and 4 encores set lists. Is there anyway or could there be to customize the playlists artwork like radio stations in the internet radio module. I got some good shots.

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+1 … I curate (pun intended) a lot of playlists and would love a custom art work option.

What else would be nice: grouping tracks from the same album under a single cover art image, as shown in this iTunes playlist example:

Just found this thread and will repost there.

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Has this issue been progressed? I love everything about Roon but I would welcome the opportunity to change artwork for playlists I have created from Tidal tracks. Specifically I am currently recreating several iconic 60s and 70s label rock samplers which are not available as complete albums on Tidal. It would “put icing on the cake” if I could use the original cover art rather than the composite generated.
Thank you
Neil

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Has this issue been progressed from the last query in 2015? I love everything about Roon but I would welcome the opportunity to change artwork for playlists I have created from Tidal tracks. Specifically I am currently recreating several iconic 60s and 70s label rock samplers which are not available as complete albums on Tidal. It would “put icing on the cake” if I could use the original cover art rather than the composite generated.
Thank you
Neil

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I have got my own question back with no response from Roon after 16 days. Is there a problem?

Hello,

This is not a response to the previous post but my question does relate to cover art.

Which is the view/cover art mode that can be used when playing a playlist so that the album cover art changes when a song from another album/artist is played?
Also, is there any hope that Roon might create a “cover flow” mode analogous to what iTunes proposed (a century ago it seems!)? It had an extremely aesthetic look and, when browsing, felt like going through vinyl albums in a box at a music store.
In the mean time I am enjoying being able to magnify album art to full screen size on my iMac (which is so much better than the thumb nail size most players -including iTunes- seem to offer today).
Thanks to all.

Alexander

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I suggest that both Playlists and Tags (and Bookmarks) should be capable of custom artwork rather than the composite. Probably Genres as well. The composite is way better than some sort of symbol, but user chosen graphics would be wonderful.

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Gonna throw my vote in for this as well. However based on OP’s statement of a request for this multiple years ago now I’m assuming we won’t see this go anywhere.

Relax, it’s only been 4 1/2 years since they started thinking about it. Maybe in another 5 years :joy:

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New Roon user here and I do see lots of threads for what would be expected behavior go on for years. Just curious if Roon does listen to feedback these forums and implement user requested features, where these requests are outliers, or is this the norm?

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Hello all,

I was wondering whether I could suggest a (possible) improvement - would it be possible, in the main view, to show only one genre of music? So instead of seeing my music as a whole, I could see only classical, or jazz, for example. This would be another way to search through my music by browsing through the cover art (instead of using the search function). If this functionality already exists, please let me know.

Thank you all.

Alexander

From what I can tell, any playlist that streams from Tidal itself is not editable in any way, shape or form, and there is nothing Roon can do about that, as that would impact the database on Tidal’s servers. If, though, it is a playlist of music you added to your library from Tidal, it appears that you have the same Roon edit capabilities that you would have for music in your physical library.

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Thanks Neil (apologies for the belated response). Just to clarify, I don’t stream music from the net - I only play from a 2Tb physical library. I typically start with the “albums” view which mixes all genres from classical to metal. I would really be useful (if anything in terms of library management) to be able to see an “albums” view per genre, i.e. in the albums view I would select the fusion tag, and only I would see a mosaic of the albums tagged as fusion.

Does this change your response ?

PS any reaction to one of my earlier posts regarding the possibility of having a cover flow similar to what iTunes used to offer. Also, regarding cover art for the albums, might there be in the future a possibility to add the back cover of an album ?

Kind regards,

Alexander

While using Spotify I was able to create playlists with ‘personalised’ covers created in photoshop and exported as jpeg. Would be great if this could be possible in Roon as well!

I’d really like to be able to add my own choice of image/ thumb nail to my playlists.

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@brian2 are you still thinking about it? It’s been six years

Of course. It is not critical. I got your point. But for those who use playlist a lot (like me and @extracampine and thousands of other users) - it is important. And it is ridiculously easy to implement (!). It is just one additional option on playlist’s tracks list “Set as playlist cover”…

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You can add me to the list of Playlist focused. Roon acknowledges that its one of their week spots, I have heard partly due to their team being more album focused.