This release includes two new features that make the sharing of tracks and albums easier and quicker.
Zone Hopping with optional Priority Zone
Previous versions had a fixed Monitoring Zone, only for this selected zone streaming services links were created. Now the system is more dynamic. All zones are monitored for playback, the zone that starts playback first will be used for link generation, when this zone stops playback any other playing zone will take over. A list of playing zones is kept, sorted by the order in which they started playback. There is an overrule for this zone order via the Priority Zone setting in the Settings dialog. The priority zone only takes priority if it is playing.
In the status line and Settings dialog it is shown which track or album is currently āin focusā.
Community Snippets
The idea behind Community Snippets is to provide a set of preformatted links that can be copied and pasted into your community posts, enabling you to share what you are playing in one of the music sharing threads in Roon Community. If you like the images that Roon can create for sharing then you can now combine it with e.g. direct links to Qobuz and Tidal. This way you make the move from showing what you are playing to sharing what you are playing!
Here is a post that I created while testing the Community Snippets, it uses an Image Link and Direct Links.
The new Settings dialog
To make it quicker to change settings, like share type and zone, you can make a change and then refresh the Community Snippets to get up to date links. You do this by selecting Now in the Refresh dropdown menu (wait till Now turns idle again). If you Save the made changes then they will also be used in case you click the Sharoon link to get to the sharing page of the selected service.
To finish off, here is a screenshot of the new Settings dialog:
I bought the developer a coffee (I received a confirmation email from the āBuy Me a Coffeeā website), however, I donāt seem to receiving a registration email when I enter my email into the extension. I have tried re-entering it once to ensure there were no typos, but I am still not receiving anything. I have checked all inboxes of my email multiple times.
Thank you for this !!! I installed the extension manager only because I was seeking for such a feature. Itās crazy we did not see this right in Roon for now. This is something I use every single dayā¦
I just donated, but I guess you have to validate my donation manually in order to get this to work @Jan_Koudijs ?
also, a few questions, is there no way to add a share button right in the player ? or simply to replace the terrible āshareā feature existing in Roon, redirecting the action to the sharoon webui ?
Could we also have an option to select the share destination ? like, share on facebook, twitter, or simply get the link if we want. ?
If you click the input field the text will be selected and you should be able to copy it, e.g. with Ctrl-C in Windows. then you move over to your forum post and paste it with Ctrl-V.
This is easiest if you have the Roon Remote and the Community Forum running on the same device.
This is possible from the share link provided by the service you selected. In Songwhip you click the 3 dots in the upper right corner and select Share this album/track.
Unfortunately not, the Roon API is pretty limited in its functionality and doesnāt provide anything that allows to hook in on the user interface. As no major new features have been added to the API since its initial release I donāt expect this to change
Any way to get this extension to play nice with radio stations that broadcast their currently playing track? It seems to pick up the station name as the artist which prevents it from finding the track I imagine.
I see your point, but DI.FM track name and artist come through the same way every time ā¦ itās just that Sharoon thinks the artist name is always ā(radio station name) DI.FM - (track name)ā - surely thereās a way to get it to read it out properly in this case?
Obviously not a huge issue but I wonder is there a coding way to get around it? I presume āandā would work or just Elvis Costello but there is no manual intervention
I seem to have come unstuck with Sharoon. Iām asked to add my email address for cloud access. I did this last week and it worked by clicking the email I was sent, but now Iāve been asked again and when I input my email I had the following