Issue with queue management when manually selecting tracks in Roon (ref#7PW9C1)

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· Fonctionnement des musiques placées en file d'attente

Bonjour

Je ne parviens pas à comprendre un point
Lorsque que l'on met plusieurs album en lecture, le premier morceau du premier album se lance,
Et une file d'attente est constituée. Jusque là, pas de problème.
Supposons maintenant que je souhaites manuellement lancer le 5eme morceau de la liste d'attente : et bien je n'arrive pas à le faire sans perdre intégralement tout le reste de la file..
Je n'arrive pas à comprendre ce fonctionnement
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Translation…

How Queued Music Works

Hello,

There’s one thing I don’t quite understand.

When you start playing multiple albums, the first track of the first album starts playing,

and a queue is created. So far, so good.

Now let’s say I want to manually play the fifth track in the queue: well, I can’t do that without losing the entire rest of the queue.

I don’t understand how this works.

Can you help me?

The queue is destructive. If you want to play a track or album without clearing the queue, use play actions.

Use the drop down next to Play now.

You may customise these in Settings > Play actions.

Hello @Sebastien_Lo_presti

Thank you to @mjw for the translation, and his answer about play actions is correct. Let us add the part that explains what you are seeing, because it comes down to where you click the track.

If you click a track while browsing an album, Roon treats that as “Play now”. Play now replaces the queue with what you clicked, so everything else is cleared. That is working as designed, and it is almost certainly what has been happening to you.

To jump to the fifth track without losing the queue, do it from inside the queue itself:

  1. Open the queue by clicking the queue icon at the bottom right of the Roon window, or by clicking the track that is currently playing.
  2. Scroll to the track you want.
  3. Click that track. A small menu appears.
  4. Choose the option to play the queue starting from that track.

The rest of the queue is kept. The tracks before it are also kept, because Roon leaves played tracks in the queue for the rest of the session, so you can scroll back up to them.

And to add music without replacing anything, use the small arrow next to Play now and choose Queue to add at the end, or Add next to place it immediately after the current track. You can change what a plain click does under Settings, then Play actions, which is the screen @mjw showed you.

Two articles that cover this:

Please tell us whether that gives you what you were after.

Hi @Sebastien_Lo_presti,

Wanted to follow up on this. Have you had a chance to try the queue steps we mentioned, opening the queue itself and then choosing the option to play from that track so the rest of the queue stays intact? If you also want to add music without replacing anything, the small arrow next to Play now lets you choose Queue or Add next, and you can adjust the default click behavior under Settings, then Play actions. Let us know what you see when you try that, or if anything is still behaving differently.

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