Can I share a Roon Playlist made by me to the community or other Roon users?

I made a few interesting Playlists with “audiophile” material, some well known songs, and I tought I could share them here in the Roon Forum. Is it possible? Maybe you discussed this in the past. Is this Roon Software Disccusion the correct category? thank you.

Diego

You can export the playlist to an Excel file. Then copy the table in Excel to paste it here into a post. The forum software is smart enough to place it into a tidy HTML table.

And it seems like Music might be a better category

It’s like the last 25 years of innovation in digital music never happened :joy:

(…sorry that wasn’t in anyway a dig at you, or your post, in any shape or form, I know you’re just trying be helpful. I just find it amazing that in 2025, soon to be 2026, the best we can do in Roon in terms of ‘how do I share playlist with my friend’ aka one the most basic features you’d expect to see in a music management platform is ‘export to Excel and then cut and paste it back as text’ or maybe ‘convert it into a Tidal/Qobuz playlist in Roon and then go into the Tidal/Qobuz app to share it; add on an extra couple of additional steps involving Soundiiz if you want to share with your mate who uses Spotify’ :roll_eyes:)

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When you share to Roon, you share to a world wide community. That means different record labels, different distribution companies and different licensing arrangements. And of course their streaming providers are split three ways further complicating things. Breaking a list out excel to be recompiled locally is probably still the most efficient way to do this without blanks or not available messages.

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IDK I’d settle for a Roon hosted webpage / link hosted at share.roon.com for example, that simply listed the tracks in my playlist.

(I personally don’t really care about exact matches to exact versions, but even if others do, let’s not make perfection the enemy of process, anything would be better than what is currently offered).

Bonus points if after each track there was a link to open it in the main streaming platforms (via a textual artist / title match) and ideally a link at the end to import the whole playlist into Roon and Spotify to start (given it’s the most ubiquitous platform for sharing playlists).

None of that seems technically impossible, it’s basically a subset of what Soundiiz or TuneMyMusic do currently using publically available APIs.

Sure it’s not an afternoons work, but neither is Roon somebody’s side project.

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Something like this, but extended to playlists.

TBH doing this well would a great way for Roon to reach new customers as they could add branding and links to the public share.roon.com links / pages and benefit from them being shared publicly with non-Roon users.

Just noticed that Tidal already implement a similar feature for albums and tracks.

Admittedly creating a sharable playlist that, similar to above, is usable outside of Roon is slightly tricker as the playlist first needs to exist or else be created on the fly.

One way to handle this is for the share.roon.com page to ask the recipient or viewer to login with their Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz or Apple credentials if they wanted to import the playlist.

It’s then just a couple of API calls (using the Spotify / Tidal / Apple Music API) to create a local copy of the playlist in their preferred platform and add the already matched playlist track IDs for that platform (see above) to it.

Going the other way and importing a sharable playlist back into Roon itself, Roon as I understand holds a snapshot of the Qobuz and Tidal databases, so in combination with the ‘playlist improver’ functionality, it should be perfectly possible to import a playlist from a share.roon.com link (or even a Qobuz / Tidal playlist link for that matter) using ‘best guesses’ from whichever of those services you are subscribed to.


In short, there is plenty of scope here for improvement, both in terms of sharing tracks / albums / playlists publicly and conversely importing shared playlists back into Roon.