I wonder whether there is a way to save and restore the current state for listening.
For instance, I was listening to a classical music box set, which contains 15 disks.
During work time, I would rather listen to some pop music, so I divert from the classical music I was listening to before.
After work, I want to continue listening to the previous track and perhaps the playback time I left off.
However, I tend to forget where I switched to pops.
You could select all tracks unplayed and add to a playlist, or as Michael says transfer queue to another audio zone in Roon. If you only have one audio Zone you could set up system audio or HDMI on a Nuclues to be zone and transfer queue to those then restore it later rather than add another unit.
If you have queued the entire 15CD Classical box-set but you want to listen to something else for a while, simply highlight some pop music and “add next” instead of “queue”. The remaining Classical tracks of your queue are preserved at the end of the pop tracks you have just added. Roon doesn’t delete or overwrite them. You can just keep playing the pop tracks until the Classical tracks come round again or when you are ready you can scroll through the queue until you get to the Classical tracks and “play from here”. I do this all the time.
Thanks for the ideas.
I play music through HQPlayer, so transferring to another zone doesn’t work.
I usually use an iPad to choose/play music, so I will use my iPhone to preserve the current state temporarily.
This is what I do. In the past, I used one of the unused HDMI audio devices on my NUC, and named it “Hold Queue”. Nowadays, I run Roon in an unprivileged Pod (container), so this option is no longer available.
This won’t work if you’re using the same zone on another device. Adding to the queue for immediate playback is destructive. The only way is to move the queue to another zone. I don’t use HQP, so maybe post in the HQ Player category.
I see. All devices sync automatically, so it doesn’t work.
My misunderstanding.
So, I created another zone that appears on the Audio device list and one that I don’t use.
This works, and now I know how to resume previous music playback.
Turning off a zone doesn’t destroy the queue, since it’s stored by Roon Server. As soon as you power on a zone, the queue will resume where you left it.
Yes I understand that, but I can’t transfer a queue from my raspberry pi in the bedroom to my chord poly that is switched off downstairs, I transfer to the phone then transfer to whatever zone I decide to use later in the day.
