Excited today to begin rolling out a feature weâve talked about at Roon for many, many yearsâŚ
Listen Later
Today we are excited to introduce Listen Later, your personal music to-do list.
Think of Listen Later as a vault for the music nuggets you unearth while exploring Roon. You can audition new discoveries with Listen Later before moving them to your Roon library â or use it to reconnect with gems that have been neglected or forgotten in your collection.
You can add albums, tracks, or even artists â making Listen Later a catch-all to-do list for sounds you want to get to know better. Listen Later always prioritizes your most recently added unplayed music, giving you instant access to your must-hear lineup whether youâre at home or listening on the go with ARC.
Listen Later also maintains a history of saved music youâve played â so you can add it to your library or put it back into your LL queue with just a few clicks.
It helps preserve your collectionâs careful curation by providing an ideal way-station for auditioning new discoveries before making them part of your library â and itâs perfect for reconnecting with sounds that have gotten lost in the shuffle.
Check out the video below for more details.
Key Features
Add any album, track, or artist to your Listen Later list, from your library or beyond
Each profile maintains its own separate list
Quick access from Home screens in both Roon and ARC
Your list will always show the most recently added content at the top
As you play content in your list, itâs automatically moved to the Played section of your list
Played content can be removed from your list with a single click, or it can be added to your library or back to Listen Later from the context menu
You can fine-tune exactly when content is considered âplayedâ via the Listen Later section on the General tab of Settings
Thank you for your continued support and feedback!
Great feature! Iâm excited to use it, but so far it seems to work as expected.
The next thing for me would be to allow tags for non-library items. Listen Later would be even better if we could tag the artists/albums/songs with the reason (recommendation from a friend, from a review, etc.) why they are on the list. I fear my Listen Later backlog will get bigger and bigger and I wonât remember why some items are on the list.
Great addition. On my end it works as expected and I am excited to get to know the feature more in the coming days. Also great to see that fixes have been introduced regarding the WiFi cellular switch playback issues. I will report back if any issues regarding this playback problem still remain.
Nit-picking, but why does the Listen-later icon on the album display have a checkmark on it? It seems superfluous and out of keeping with the other iconsâŚ
About the UI: Roonâs home banner has a design with colors that are much more similar to the ARC interface(in fact there it integrates better because it takes up the same colors and shades).
I wonder if this is a choice or a beginning of Roonâs design update
Was using a Playlist in Roon (most others are created externally and imported as the playing order is fixed, important if built from gig set lists, as there is no âLock Playlist feature, which entered as a feature suggestion) to capture âMusic to be playedâ whether generally or for a particular evening/event/listening session etc., so this has just captured this as a feature.
Better than Tags, which was the other way, as this only works on items already added.
Also the possibility of adding a queue to Listen Later could be an interesting possibility
*Edit: ok, it is possible to do this by choosing the individual tracks of the queue and then clicking On the three dots next to the play button, but it would be more immediate to do it directly from the three dots next âQueueâ
Just rejoined early access because of this feature. Normally on new music Fridays I just add a bunch of albums that sound interesting after listening to part of a track or two. But like that this way I can just throw in listen later to see if really want. Can also toss in new albums by groups I know but donât have time to check out yet. Can also throw in existing albums I might to listen to later in day or week.
Only just started testing but havenât run into any issues yet.
A question: does music played from Listen Later still inform algorithmic recommendations (like daily mixes)? I would love some way to try new music without Roon learning from it. Given the intended use of Listen Laterânamely, that it gives you a place to store music you want to tryâthat seems like a good place to enable listening without learning. There is a fair bit of music I try that I donât end up liking, and currently I jump to YouTube or Spotify to try things I donât want Roon (or Tidal) to use to make recommendations. Iâd love a way to do that directly in Roon, whether through Listen Later or some way to turn on a listening session that is not tracked for learning.
only thing is it seems I cannot remove item manually, I added some albums to listen later when I was checking what that new button was, now I cannot remove those and donât want to listen to them, am I missing how to remove the items manually?
