Playlists in Roon are a UX Failure – We need an “Album Grid View” now!
Dear Roon Development Team,
As a Lifetime Member, I am reaching out because I am increasingly frustrated by a fundamental flaw in Roon’s UI: the inability to view playlists as a grid of album covers.
Managing a large playlist (e.g., 3000 tracks / 300 albums) in Roon is a nightmare. Being forced to scroll through an endless vertical text list of individual tracks is outdated and inefficient. Human beings navigate music through visual cues—album art—not by reading thousands of lines of text.
The current “workarounds” are unacceptable for a premium product:
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Forcing users to “Add to Library” just to see a cover grid is a poor design choice that clutters the main library.
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The Tagging system is inconsistent and creates massive manual overhead for what should be a simple display toggle.
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Streaming content is treated as “second class” unless it’s fully integrated into the database.
We urgently need a “View as Albums” toggle within the playlist screen. Roon prides itself on being the best music management software, yet it fails at providing a basic visual overview for large curated lists. Please stop treating playlists like digital cassette tapes and allow us to use the beautiful album grid view we paid for—regardless of whether the content is officially “in the library” or just part of a streaming playlist.