Smart playlists via the API?

[GregD (Greg Dowling)]

Has anyone taken a look at this yet?

I can see my existing HA code can’t browse or play smart playlists - although it does see the names in the browser. It looks like the TV Remote app has a similar issue.

Just wondered if anyone has look at this yet, just so I know whether I need to just revise the code - or roon don’t support these properly via the api yet.

[DrCWO (C.W. Oehlrich)]

What is a “smart playlist” and where to create or find it in Roon

Probably this issue will also be relevant for rooExtend…

Best DrCWO

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@DrCWO

What is a “smart playlist” and where to create or find it in Roon

Roon 2.0.42 and ARC 1.0.58 are live!

Hello Everyone, We’re beyond excited to introduce Smart Playlists a powerful new way to rediscover and organize your music. This has been one of our top feature requests for a long time and we are thrilled to now have them in Roon! Available in Roon and ARC, Smart Playlists allow you create deep, dynamically updating playlists of albums or tracks from simple focus filters. Use them to easily rediscover your music. With a few clicks, you can curate custom slices of your library…

[DrCWO (C.W. Oehlrich)]

In my Browser ther button to create the smart playlist is missing

EDIT:
And I’m up to date…

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

Restart your Roon server one or two times more. This happened many times

[DrCWO (C.W. Oehlrich)]

Hmmmm

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

https://community.roonlabs.com/search?context=topic&context_id=284593&q=Restart%20server%20smart%20playlist%20order%3Alatest&skip_context=true

[GregD (Greg Dowling)]

Looks like @R_102 already took a look and the api doesn’t support them properly yet

Apple TV Extension - Roon TV Remote

It looks like smart playlist aren’t supported via the API yet… The “Not Found” title is return via the API. COMPLETE Success [204]: {"items":[{"title":"Not Found","subtitle":null,"image_key":null,"item_key":"12:0"}],"offset":0,"list":{"level":1,"title":"Smart Test","subtitle":"39 Tracks","image_key":null,"count":1,"display_offset":0}} Possibly one for Support @benjamin

[mtimmans (Michel Timmermans)]

Is the smart playlist option in the API still not available?

[peter_richardson]

No - nothing in the API has changed in the last few years other than an update to play nicely with new Nodejs versions.

I don’t think this will be a priority for the developers - but have no inside knowledge.

[Jan_Koudijs]

What there is about playlists and API is this ticket:

Local Roon Playlists Not Visible in Extensions Using Multiple Roon Profiles [Ticket In]

What’s happening? · Something else How can we help? · None of the above Other options · Other Describe the issue summary: local roon playlists do not show up on extensions I have these types of playlists: 1. created in the roon app against my flac files 2. created in tidal/qobuz as custom playlists and synced in roon (show up in roon) 3. favorited in tidal/qobuz and synced in roon (show up in roon) I have installed a few extensions and neither will show the roon made playlists, only the pl…

[GregD (Greg Dowling)]

Has anyone formally raised a support ticket about this?

I use a python library that uses the undocumented interface underneath the node api - which obviously isn’t supported.

But someone who uses the supported node api could raise it formally.

Perhaps @DrCWO @Jan_Koudijs or @R_102 ?

[DrCWO (C.W. Oehlrich)]

As far as I know the ticket is already in the queue but still open.
Maybe @Jan_Koudijs knows more about it.

Best DrCWO

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Oh man, this absence is really cutting into my enjoyment of RooMax (since I’m not clever enough yet to figure out BTT).

Make it so, please, team Roon! It’s a sign of how much we love the product that we are complaining (umm, wishing out loud frequently?), I promise! @noris @benjamin any insights (I know you’re not allowed to share roadmap, but I just keep hoping, even if it’s not entirely fair to you!)

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

Hi-

With apologies that I haven’t been on the forum much in the last 6 months (busy building my homelab and focused much more on listening to music while building my infrastructure / learning proxmox / opnsense / docker compose / ansible), does anyone know if there is an update on this? Been playing with my RooMax and I just keep missing the ability to play smart playlists. I know there is a workaround with using the Mac to execute commands. And DrCWO is launching command line which will work. But it really seems odd to me. Am I just being dense, and this was launched long ago? Or is this still outstanding… anyways, can someone let me know what status is as far as we know?

[DrCWO (C.W. Oehlrich)]

@Johnny_Ooooops

Been playing with my RooMax and I just keep missing the ability to play smart playlists

There is an issue in the Roon API regarding smart playlists. I can’t help here until Roon fixes it.
Can you please point me to the solution for the MAC.

And yes, RoonCommandline will come but I have no idea how this will solve the issue.

Best DrCWO

[Johnny_Ooooops (Listener in Chief)]

@DrCWO

Can you please point me to the solution for the MAC.

Actually I’m not remembering well. Like i said it has been a while. The thing i was recalling was the better touch work that was done… but that was controlling hqplayer, which does have a CL tool. There was speculation that command line might some day work with smart playlists but just that.

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