I get a little frustrated with having to start my playlists from scratch if I’ve had to change them for the kids or the wife, could we get a playlist resume function on both Roon and ARC that allows us to click on the playlist icon and resume where we left off with the queue intact?
A couple of comments, first is you should vote for your own suggestion. Click the blue Vote button.
Also, the playlist and the Queue are completely separate things. The queue will change depending on what you play, so what your are asking for is the ability to put one Queue “on hold”, play something else, and then go back to the original held queue.
I do have some suggestions that might work for you, but, to understand you need to know how the Queue works.
Once you hit play on a Playlist, it puts the entire playlist into the Queue and begins playing it. Let’s say you play the first three songs, and then decide to play another playlist using Play now. If you look in the Queue page, what it will show you is that those unplayed tracks from the previous playlist are now rolled up into a Skipped Tracks line. Like So, in the image below I started one short playlist, let 2 songs play, and then started another Playlist.
If I click on the Expand dropdown, I will see all the Skipped Tracks of the Playlist I WAS playing before starting a new one. Like so,
You will notice that all the Skipped Tracks have been selected. If I now to to the top and Click the “Play Now” button, it will put those skipped tracks as the current queue and start playing them. In essence, playing from where I left off before playing another playlist.
If that doesn’t work for you, I will give you the other more complicated work around.
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Apart from that, though, it would still be nice if Roon remembered the last position in every playlist. There are many long playlists taking tens of hours, like „NME Greatest songs of all times“ on Qobuz, and stuff like this. Would be nice to be able to continue where one left off last time - this may be a long time gone from the queue.
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