Shuffle albums and display cover art

[Martin_Smith]

1. I saw some earlier threads on album shuffle - does this exist yet, or is there a way to do it?
2. On the Roon now playing display, is there a way to get it to default to showing album art? Mine always defaults to showing lyrics.

Thanks!

[ged_hickman1]

1. Not by default there is a 3rd party extension you can use. Search for Roon extensions on Google.
2. You can change the order of the displayed items on playing now. Use the gear wheel at the top right corner, then drag the order using the six dot icons.

[SvenM (A bit can have 10 different values)]

The extension ion that (@)ged_hickman1 is referring to in Random Radio. More info about it in the following topic:

Roon Extension: Random Radio v0.2.0 (do the album shuffle)

Short Description Roon Extension to play random tracks or albums Description Within the Roon Community there are quite regularly queries regarding the randomness of shuffle and the lack of the option to play random albums. After reading about this I asked myself the question if it can be done via the Roon API and I thought it was worth a try. This is what I ended up with, I hope it fills a gap. Just Random The extension uses the Browse API to get access to the tracks and albums in your library a…

[Martin_Smith]

Thanks for the advice on now playing - now solved

[Martin_Smith]

Thanks for the links. look good, but seems a faff to set up on a Mac