I think the technical reason was mentioned above. You can toss an entire album into the queue but, once in a queue, albums are actually groups of tracks, not entities in and of themselves. For better or worse. (Like, let’s say you added an album to the queue, but you removed a song from that album once it was in the queue. Would it still be an album?)
For the time being, you might have to time your inspiration to strike during the last song of an album!
I just saw this request and its a good one but a, only mildly annoying, workaround I currently use:
Album → Add Next
Then go to queue and move up the remaining songs of the currently playing album. Most albums are only 10 songs so I’m rarely moving more than a handful of songs to put things back into place.
I apologize if this is missing the point but, with that many albums queued (12+ hrs), wouldn’t it be better to create a playlist at that point, or perhaps tag the albums (and then pull up the albums that match said tags) instead of relying on the queue? If you did that to create a subset of albums, you could then still use the queue to line up your next album.
Does that make sense? Basically, to use tags or a playlist to narrow down your overall subset of albums, and from that subset then use the queue in a more “targeted” or short-term manner?
I just don’t think the queue is meant to have that much music in it, necessarily. That said, if it’s the only way, or the best way, to do what you want to do, I’m 100% sympathetic to that, as I certainly have plenty of quirks and idiosyncrasies myself.
Don’t really get that. Surely a playlist is for sequences you want to repeat, not random queues created on the hoof from 100,000+ tracks library. I pick as I go, sometimes theming, sometimes not, but almost invariably playing whole albums. Whether there are 3 or 30 or 300 albums in the queue when I want to insert a next album, the hassle of moving the tracks one at a time is absurd.
It is surely a simple addition to Roon’s functions, and as I mentioned previously, an example of how JRiver sometimes got it right.
Thank you. Please keep the votes coming. This is such a simple need, as reflected by the presence of this option and other variations being available in JRiver since the year dot.
I do feel quite strongly that Roon needs to spend more time fixing basic navigation bugs and shortcomings (of which this request is an example), before embarking on show-off but really rather unnecessary stuff like Valence.