"Drops Music" Mobile App?

Generally speaking, I’m happy with both Roon Server and Roon Arc and I have a lifetime license. However, there are certainly issues with both and an aging list of “wants” from various people but Roon seems to have a small development and support team. It confuses me then that they would seem to allocate some of that team developing a new mobile app, “Drops Music” which seems to just clip and “Tik-Tok-ify” music in a (social?) platform.

Can anyone explain this?

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roon.drops&hl=en

iOS: ‎Drops Music App - App Store

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I certainly can’t explain the app as she’s not public yet. Going by the description, I seems to be some sort of music sharing app. Sharing music (listens) with others is IIRC something that got requested by users.

https://community.roonlabs.com/search?q=share%20%23feedback%3Afeature-suggestion

If this app is what people had in mind or is going to fulfill any current wishes – I guess only time can tell. When the app becomes available we can see and decide for ourself if the app is worth it – but the opinion of single users may not necessarily reflect a majority of all users.
Team Roon Labs will probably not reply to the thread until they have something to share about this app publicly.

A thread about it was started after some of us received an email invitation:

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This is incorrect. Whilst the idea of Drops comes from the Roon Founders, it is funded through Harman, and has a completely separate development team.

Then Harman acquired us. And suddenly, the opportunity to assemble a new team…

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This is great - thanks. I had searched a bit for an existing thread but didn’t come across this. Reading through this explains a lot.

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I think the Drops app is a great idea and I’m quite interested because I do this type of sharing already. But the app is unusable right now. Tried to create an account and just got multiple errors with “link already used” and “couldn’t verify your email at this time”. Wasted my time. Alert me when stable version 3.0 is released.

Does anybody actually test their crappy software anymore?

In their defense, this is invite-only right now so I’m guessing that’s why you got the error message and couldn’t get it to work.

Good to know that you’d actually like the usage of this. I typically share full songs through streaming links but I guess there’s some value for people to just share the “drop”.

Only those who receive an invite can use the app, so it is no surprise that this failed for you.

You assume too much.

I received an invite and followed the 3 step instructions and got multiple errors.

Okay, but yur comment…

…suggested otherwise, and you didn’t state that you had joined the preview.