Claude's models to generate playlists?

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I sometimes use rooAIDJ, which is nice.

However, it uses a fairly old GPT-4.1 model. I subscribe to Claude but not to their API (which requires separate billing). I do not want to set this up just to occasionally use it with rooAIDJ.

So my question to you all is whether there’s a convenient way, even a bit more “manual” than rooAIDJ, to generate playlists with the Claude app, say, and import them into Roon.

Claude itself suggested something but it is very elaborate. I am wondering if anyone has a good protocol to make this work.

Thx!

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I asked Claude : Yes — and that’s a better idea than what I gave you. There’s a clean way to do it that involves no file paths and no black box windows at all.

Why Roon alone can’t do it

Roon has no “paste a list of songs and go find them” feature. Its playlist import only reads file paths pointing at files on your own drive. So a text list handed straight to Roon does nothing.

But Roon automatically shows you any playlist that exists in your Tidal or Qobuz account. Tracks you add to a Qobuz list in the Qobuz app show up in Roon. So we go around the side: build the playlist in the streaming service, and let Roon inherit it. Roon Labs

The missing piece is a middleman that turns a text list into a real Qobuz/Tidal playlist. That’s Soundiiz — a website, free for this, that does exactly this. You upload a text file, review the list, and it adds the matching songs to Qobuz. Same for Tidal. Soundiiz

The whole thing, three steps

1. Ask me for a list.

Give me 25 tracks that go well with [Album — Artist]. Format each line as Artist - Track Title. Plain list, nothing else.

2. Feed it to Soundiiz.

Go to soundiiz.com, sign up free, connect your Qobuz (or Tidal) account. Then: Playlists → Import → From a text file. Paste my list in, or save it as a .txt and upload it. It shows you what it found, you click confirm, and a new playlist appears in your Qobuz account.

The free tier does one playlist at a time, up to 200 songs — more than enough. Soundiiz

3. Open Roon.

The playlist shows up in your Playlists sidebar within a few minutes. Nothing to install, nothing to configure.

One honest warning, and it’s about your music specifically

Soundiiz matches songs using titles, artists, albums, track length, and version details. That works beautifully for jazz and rock, where “Miles Davis – So What” is unambiguous. Soundiiz

Classical is where it gets clumsy. There are forty recordings of the Paganini Rhapsody, and “Rachmaninoff – Variation 18” could land you on any of them. So for classical, I’ll write the lines with the performer and orchestra included — Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Var. 18 - Ashkenazy/Previn/LSO — which gives the matcher something to actually grip. Anything it can’t confidently find gets flagged in the results, so you’ll see the misses rather than getting a silent wrong recording. Soundiiz

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I also use RooAIDJ and have enjoyed it. I just tried Peter’s solution above and it worked flawlessly. I hadn’t thought of using Soundiiz (which I have used previously a fair amount to sync playlists..) as the bridge between an AI interface and Roon. Great idea, thanks for the tip!

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Interesting. I am actually a Soundiiz subscriber, but it never ocurred to me to use it this way.

Good call! Works great.

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Actually the credit goes to Claude - Artificial Intelligence beats my own Real Stupidity again! Glad it works.

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Honestly I am surprised how well this works - it is not as cumbersome as the description of the process might imply. And you can use ANY AI. And for classical you can use sophisticated decision trees like “If it’s a piano solo choose Maria Joao Pires first, then Murray Perahia second…” Just an example but shows the power of the method.

BTW… Shoutout to Soundiiz. I have actually subscribed to the platform for many years now and find it super useful as I subscribe to Apple Music, Qobuz, Tidal, and free tier on Spotify. It even integrates with Discogs. Amazing.

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For those who do use AI agent workflows, Soundiiz announced in July 2026, their playlist import API at https://support.soundiiz.com/hc/en-us/articles/36613501259922--API-Let-your-users-import-any-tracklist-to-Soundiiz

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Thanks for sharing - I’d missed that and its something I’ve been waiting to explore.

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If I understand this correctly, what this is doing is producing a temporary URL with the data fed to it via the API and that temporary URL opens a dialog where you check the playlist produced and possibly save it to one of the services you subscribe to. Maybe I am misunderstanding?

I would prefer a workflow where I use the API, specify the service and playlist name, and it automatically creates the playlist without interaction.

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