MusicD Shortcuts - “Hey Siri, Roon random jazz”

[MusicD]

For those days when you are busy. Maybe too busy to pick-up your Roon Remote or sit at your desktop. Too busy to decide what to play.

Your voice becomes the remote.

“Hey Siri, Roon random classical”

A quick note about iOS shortcuts. You cannot name it with ‘play’ at the start as it will recognise this as a command to play music on a streaming app.

MusicD Shortcuts — install & docs

Once up and running, you can create the webhooks in two ways;

1. via Roon settings > Extensions > MusicD Shortcuts > Settings

Or

2. visit the MusicD Shortcuts webUI <your.ip.address>:3000

Enjoy

Still working on this but it is working.

Tests being carried out for Android.

[MusicD]

An update is available already

v1.0.1 - which allows future updates to be via the extension settings in Roon

A few extra options are available for the webhooks.

• Play 5 random albums of any genre
• Play 10 random albums of any genre

You can also select the number of albums per genre and also select multiple genres.

Still working on Android. There is a free app that creates desktop shortcuts (Chrome does the same but you end up with multiple webpages open). I need to explore Google Assistant and Google Home automation for voice control.

Enjoy

[MusicD]

Siri sometimes is not the best. I’m currently on iOS 27 beta and, well it’s terrible.

To ensure greater accuracy with the shortcuts you can add the shortcut as a voice shortcut.

This YouTube video gives a quick guide on where and how. When selecting the action, scroll to Shortcuts and any webhook shortcuts will appear there.

[PixelPopper]

Presumably you’ll be producing a British Sign Language version next