I’ve started trying to make a playlist in Roon for the first time - normally, I make my playlists in Media Monkey and then import them into Roon. But this time I wanted to do it in Roon so I could mix my local, Tidal, and Qobuz stuff together.
Yay!
Yeah, not so much.
It seems I can only add an entire album at once to a playlist or I have to add each song individually, one at a time, to the list. I can’t seem to select multiple songs and add them all at once to a playlist. I have to assume I’m missing something because I’m having a hard time believing that something like this wasn’t included by default. That’s beyond lazy. In fact, that borders on being crippled.
So, the question is, how do I add multiple songs from one album to a playlist, all at once?
Hi @Shane_Morales i do it from the Album on iPad or iPhone. Long press the first track you want to select it. You will then notice that each track has a select button to the left of it. Select each one you want or select all from the drop down box, then click add to playlist and add to an existing playlist or create a new playlist like you normally do.
Right-click on a track you want to add. Note that the play buttons at the left of the tracks turn to selection circles, and the number of items selected shows up at the top of the screen above the album art:
Many thanks for @Marc_Frank for taking your hand and and guiding you through the process so diligently. In my system, if i right mouse click a song the select button appears and the new drop down box appears every time!!
And whilst i very rarely get snarky with people on the forum as we all like to help, I now think that perhaps the correct response for you @Shane_Morales would have been as follows:
A little additional thing: Once you start the multiselection with the right-click, you can also select a range by holding Shift as usual. In fact, you can select several ranges at once by starting each new range with a right-click and then holding Shift.
Multiselection also works for albums, artists, etc., and you can make edits or add tags to the multiselection by going to the (…) button at the top just like when adding to a playlist
As for the Snark, I’m Sorry Not Sorry about that. It honestly never occurred to me that something as simple and straightforward as making playlists would be so non-standard in Roon that it requires a dedicated webpage with screenshots to describe how to do correctly. And “totally uncalled for” is how I feel about a developer swapping what the left and right mouse buttons do on a Windows mouse. That, to me, is a crippled Windows experience.
You can’t select more than one range concurrently in Windows File Explorer as far as I know, so I consider the behavior a very useful one that is appropriate for the task. Similar to how Excel has a way to select multiple cell ranges, which is also non-standard.
