# MusicD Remote - a companion client for Roon **URL:** \ **Category:** Roon API\ **Created:** [July 11, 2026, 8:35am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429 "2026-07-11T08:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/81 "2026-09-21T20:08:47Z")
If you got this far, bravo šŸ™Œ . I think thereā€™s a lot to take in with this update. Some folks like me do use more than one streaming service. Occasionally I use Apple Music and under family pressure, Spotify. The services I added allow you to open to the current album playing in Roon to that chosen service. In my screenshots I had all of them enabled. Choose which you want. Tap on Apple Music and itā€™ll open to that album either in the Apple Music web player or the actual Apple Music app, if installed. The same for all. Bandcamp. A bit hit n miss. Why? Well, I have ~10k local albums on my server, but my Apple Music library may not have the currently playing Roon album. Tap and add. Done. Simple. Artist bios and album reviews from multiple sources. More coming soon. A small wiki album review added to the share card. Mainly which release number it is and the date etc. Roon does do album reviews. Just one. Roon also does artist bios. Just one. Here you have multiple options. šŸ¤£ I took screenshots of an album which has no reviews in Roon nor the links in the share card feature. ---
**Author:** ![grzlybear](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/grzlybear/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@grzlybear](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/grzlybear)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 6:30am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/82 "2026-09-22T06:30:49Z")
thank you for all your work on this! I have a bug on the album screen, the cover art overlaps the track listing. This is on Windows, same behavior on chrome, firefox and edge. Running the latest version. ![image](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/4/1/c/41ca5dcdd265c97b7f6d5581ab2dd5f6cccb17be.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/83 "2026-09-22T10:07:38Z")
Thank you šŸ™ Iā€™ll add this to my things to look into šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 10:14am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/84 "2026-09-22T10:14:57Z")
Reproduced: 18px of overlap ā€” .modal-info starts at 533, the artā€™s right edge is at 551. šŸ‘ Iā€™ve got a few things to debug and will update with a patch later today or tomorrow. Thanks for reporting it. ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/85 "2026-09-22T16:29:14Z")
@grzlybear I have fixed the issue and will be pushing out a patch in the next hour or so. ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/86 "2026-09-22T18:02:54Z")
v1.8.50 - several UI fixes and Discover added to the side menu ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/87 "2026-09-22T23:59:05Z")
An unplanned busy night v1.8.56 - fixed - waveforms for Qobuz and Tidal, local files unaffected Note: for waveforms to be produced, log into Qobuz or Tidal, like you do within Roon is needed inside this extensionā€™s Settings \> Streaming Accounts To turn waveforms on, Settings \> Playback ---
**Author:** ![PixelPopper](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/pixelpopper/32/247825_2.png) [@PixelPopper](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/PixelPopper)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/88 "2026-09-25T07:10:29Z")
I finally got around to installing, thanks. Been using it for 24 hours and itā€™s looking great. šŸ™ ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2026, 7:33am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/89 "2026-09-26T07:33:58Z")
With huge thanks to a fellow user, a minor flaw was found with the side menu appearing under the Mini transport bar. This caused some of the side menus buttons to be un-selectable. This has been fixed. v1.8.59 is available A special thanks to anyone brave enough to use my extension. Thank you. šŸ™ ![IMG9731](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/d/d/1/dd15a73cec63eabe2c333497b8710f433a80923a.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 10:07am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/90 "2026-09-27T10:07:38Z")
v1.8.63 - fixes the sort by release date and now also displays the full release date in the album view screen A few other improvements made and some house cleaning tasks completed. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Harris](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/michael_harris/32/208975_2.png) [@Michael\_Harris](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Michael_Harris)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 10:08am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/91 "2026-09-27T10:08:57Z")
Just updating it now thanks šŸ‘ ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:15am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/92 "2026-10-01T06:15:24Z")
Bestest review ever from @Johnny_Ooooops ![1001241624](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/4/1/3/4130164bd0682dc8e421cb7866cad90f49623c2a.png) Brought a wee tear of joy to my eye šŸ™ ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/93 "2026-10-01T06:29:39Z")
Just wish to say thank you to any, and everyone whoā€™s at least tried my extension. What started out as a personal project gives me joy that others find it as useful as I do. Shortly, within the next week or so I will be sharing another project - Mandarin\* \*Not the bad guy in Iron Man 3 or the fruit. šŸ¦† ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ooooops](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/johnny_ooooops/32/121403_2.png) [@Johnny\_Ooooops](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Johnny_Ooooops)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/94 "2026-10-01T13:04:25Z")
Umm. Iā€™m obsessed. NGL, this is just good product design. Iā€™m trying to figure out kiosk behavior on an old iPad so I can have it screen saver on the display, and wake on camera to the controller. Kiosker can do it, but for $24.99/year. I can probably build something code in html without the camera. Anyways, this is fabulous. Iā€™d love to hear more about how you figured out the behavior you wanted. What youā€™ve built is well executed, but the thing that brings a wee tear to my eye is how youā€™ve stripped what I want down to a minimum and made it interactive in a way thatā€™s great. two things, since you didnā€™t ask me for feedback, and I canā€™t resistā€¦ 1. thereā€™s some displays where wrap on text isnā€™t great. Hereā€™s the same two albums on iPhone Safari (perfect) and iPad Kiosker (which is built on top of Safari) 2. When looking at a detail card, Iā€™d love to be able to swipe left or right to see previous/next. I know thereā€™s a debate whether this should exist as a behavior for things with random orders (e.g., if I donā€™t know what is going to be next, should I be swiping) but I think tinder and that ilk have won this war. You can hint that itā€™s available with a light ā€œ\<ā€ and ā€œ\>ā€ on the album cover or just leave it hidden. And I know this kind of swipe has an uneven implementation across browsers etc but I just think itā€™s so clunky to go back to the page and click the next one if you can avoid it. 3. One other thought on how I think Iā€™m going to interact with this. I think Iā€™d love to move back and forth between the ā€œwall displayā€ and the controller. So what I have right now is in one use case on my secondary monitor above my machine, I have a browser window which is on [http://10.1.60.10:3399/display](http://10.1.60.10:3399/display) and then I can go backwards/forwards to flip to [http://10.1.60.10:3399](http://10.1.60.10:3399) when I want to play a new album. So I sort of have a ā€œmanual screensaverā€. But the ā€œwall displayā€ is actually not always a display - I can interact with it because thereā€™s more by this artist and more by this label, so I can start music / queue from the display. Ideally Iā€™d love to have a gesture and/or control so I could flip back and forth between them when I have them in a browserā€¦ and if there were a way to set a timer within the application so that after a certain time it went back to the display, well, that would be cool too. Not sure how cross-browser realistic that idea is. Anyways, I love how active this is. If I can contribute in any way, Iā€™d love to. This is fabulous work you are doing! ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/95 "2026-10-01T17:15:46Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ooooops](#): > > thereā€™s some displays where wrap on text isnā€™t great. Hereā€™s the same two albums on iPhone Safari (perfect) and iPad Kiosker (which is built on top of Safari) Noted and Iā€™ll check on this FWIW on iOS, with Safari you can save the PWA to the home screen and itā€™ll resemble a full screen app. This should be possible on the latest iOS for iPads. > [@Johnny\_Ooooops](#): > > When looking at a detail card, Iā€™d love to be able to swipe left or right to see previous/next. Interesting idea and Iā€™ll test this out > [@Johnny\_Ooooops](#): > > One other thought on how I think Iā€™m going to interact with this. I think Iā€™d love to move back and forth between the ā€œwall displayā€ and the controller. Same here as the first, if you save it to the home screen on iOS, both will resemble separate apps. Changing between the two might be possible and a timer function is an idea I hadnā€™t thought about. The way I use the extension, like I do another project is set the wall display up on my iPad which sits next me or on my 65" TV šŸ˜ and my phone is the controller so hadnā€™t thought about this function. Iā€™ll sit down at the weekend and go through these and prioritise the text wrap bug. Thanks @Johnny_Ooooops I really appreciate your input. ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/96 "2026-10-01T18:47:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ooooops](#): > > If I can contribute in any way, Iā€™d love to. Bug reports and feature requests like yours are perfect and help massively. I decided to look into these tonight as I have a bit of spare time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ooooops](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/johnny_ooooops/32/121403_2.png) [@Johnny\_Ooooops](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Johnny_Ooooops)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:28am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/97 "2026-10-02T02:28:33Z")
Awesome! bug report du jour: I think albums with kanji characters (and perhaps others with non-Latin characters) can be browsed but wonā€™t play. All of these albums give the same error message no matter whether I rescan or what. No other issues on any other albums that I can find.(the SST albums play fine for instance). ![IMG_1035](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/0/b/2/0b27cc5c21edfcd853742d8fff355aa214d0f493.jpeg) ![IMG_1036](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/2/7/c/27c258a72e9d7ad25129b4cea8f0c0f9016f6986.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/98 "2026-10-02T05:47:20Z")
The bottom error would perhaps suggest you added an album to Roonā€™s library and the extension hasnā€™t re-scanned the Roon library. This is a limitation of the API and that every time new albums are added the browse API has to run. Iā€™ll see if I can make improvements, the extension automatically knows when Roonā€™s library is ingesting albums to its library and halts a re-scan. ![image](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/4X/1/e/7/1e76ec61ee8755997cb928005803d2359e4ea022.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 5:49am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/99 "2026-10-02T05:49:17Z")
For iPads on an older version of iOS that lacks the facility to save the PWA to the Home Screen without hiding the address bar, this app might interest you. Itā€™s free. > **[Simple Kiosk App - App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/simple-kiosk/id1576660604)** > > Download Simple Kiosk by zigzag GmbH on the AppĀ Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Simple Kiosk. It just doesnā€™t show my duck logo on the Home Screen. ---
**Author:** ![MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/musicd/32/372347_2.png) [@MusicD](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/MusicD)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 6:05am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429/100 "2026-10-02T06:05:34Z")
Your wish is my command. All implemented and fixed. > **[Release MusicD Remote v1.8.66 Ā· meltface-80/MusicD-Remote](https://github.com/meltface-80/MusicD-Remote/releases/tag/v1.8.66)** > > Three requests from one post on the Roon forum, from someone running the remote > and the wall display on an older iPad in Kiosker (a kiosk browser built on > Safari). > Fixed ā€” tile text ran into the ne... In short: ā€¢ Fixed the text wrapping issue ā€¢ Added swipe and \< \> to the album view screens - if on an artist itā€™ll scan through their catalogue, if on a label itā€™ll scan through that label etc ā€¢ Wall Display timer to show Wall Display after a time with a navigation button (tap screen, top left corner) to go back to the remote (note: albums by same artist or similar shown on the Wall Display have always been selectable to play now or add to queue) [Previous page](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429.md?page=4) [Next page](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/musicd-remote-a-companion-client-for-roon/322429.md?page=6)