A Roon companion for Windows that lives in the tray. Press a hotkey to open a small player with now playing, your queue, browse and search, get a "now playing" toast when the track changes, put a mini player on your taskbar, or wrap the Roon app itself in a window with a Now Playing screen you design yourself: your layout, fonts, colors and animated bars. It works on its own, no Stream Deck needed, and pairs with Roon: Dialed Up if you have a Stream Deck.
It has four parts, each of which you can switch on or off.
Roon, your way. The Wrapper puts the Roon app inside a Toasted window and gives it a player you design yourself. Everything Roon can do is still right there; what changes is how your music looks while it plays, and Wrapped's own pages add weekly discovery playlists, Deep Dive playlists made to order and your whole listening history (see Wrapped's own pages).
- A full-window Now Playing you lay out yourself. Click the album art in the player bar, then the pencil: move and resize the art, track info, controls, seek bar, zone, quality light and volume anywhere on the screen.
- Your fonts, icons and colors. Pick a font per piece (bundled, or any font on your PC), an icon pack (Lucide, Phosphor, Tabler, Material Symbols, Remix), a plain or circled play button, and black outlines or glows for text and icons. Colors follow the app, the playing album's art, or a color you pick.
- Styles for the seek bar and volume, in one list: the simple Line, Thick, Hairline and Segments; Roon, Pills, Peak caps, Pixel, Stitch, LED meter, Solid shape, Line graph, Contour, Neon outline, Neon tube, Wave, Spectrum, Beam, Glow line, Ribbon and Album art; and the animated-only Mountains, Particles and Plasma. The animated ones come alive around the playhead while music plays.
- Real waveforms: with Hearts & Library on, the seek bar's Waveform switch shows a local file's actual waveform from Roon in most styles, optionally bouncing near the playhead, colored by loudness, and as Roon has it or more dynamic.
- Profiles: save layouts and switch between them, or start from the Default, Waves and Waves Large presets. The player bar along the bottom can follow the same style.
Switch it on in Settings > The Wrapper, then open it from the tray, with Ctrl + Alt + W, or from Settings. Closing it keeps Roon running out of sight, so it reopens instantly. Return Roon gives Roon its own window back; an Enable Wrapper button then sits in Roon's title bar to wrap it up again. Only want the Wrapper? Switch the Toaster off in Settings > Toaster, and its hotkeys and links open the Wrapper instead.
Your listening, put to work. The Wrapped button over Roon's logo opens Wrapped's pages right next to Roon, and its arrow drops down Wrapped's side menu (Settings' Default Menu picks which side menu, and page, show when the Wrapper opens). They run on the Hearts & Library link.
- Home: your Wrapped playlists, your week, artists for you, new albums from the artists you listen to and from ones you may like, newer albums from your favorite artists you may have missed, forgotten favorites, and what you played on this day in earlier years.
- Discover: every Monday, Discover Weekly (artists you've never played, one song each) and Library Rediscover (favorites you haven't played in a year or more, plus artists in your library you've never played), saved as Roon playlists. Rate a song with the thumbs in the player and the next lists follow; Fine Tuning takes requests in your own words.
- Deep Dive: a playlist made to order from the songs, albums or artists you pick and what you ask for, from new music, your library or both. Deeper Dive asks a few questions first, Talk it over changes one you've made, and Smart Radio needs nothing but the picks. Tiers: discovery gets smarter with each tier you set up in Wrapped's
- Settings. Tier 1 works from Last.fm listeners and tags (a free key), tier 2 reads up on each pick with a language model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, or Ollama on your own PC), and tier 3 listens to the songs, your own files first. Lights on Discover and Deep Dive show what each tier has.
- History: everything you've played in Roon, plus your Last.fm scrobbles from before, with your top artists, albums and tracks for any stretch of time.
- Your library: Genres (from the artists' tags), Artists, Albums, Tracks (with a shuffle of its own), Playlists, Listen Later and Tags, and album and artist pages with similar artists, tags and play menus.
- In the player: Discover and Deep Dive buttons left of the controls, the heart right after the song's name, and in Now Playing a Wrapped menu with Discover, Deep Dive, the artist and the album.
- Onboarding: a short walkthrough the first time you open each part. Replay it or switch it off in Settings.
- Live albums: off by default, which leaves live albums out of everything Wrapped picks for you.
Tier 2 with an online service uses your own key, and the names of songs and artists go to that service. Tiers 2 and 3 are optional.
The Wrapper works with Roon's own window, and Wrapped's pages and the hearts use a part of Roon that isn't open to apps, so a Roon update could change how they behave. They're experimental for that reason.
A small player that opens from the tray, a hotkey (Ctrl + Alt + Z) or a
roon-toasted:// link, and goes back to the tray when you're done.
- Now playing, queue, browse and search for any zone, with playback, volume, shuffle, repeat, Roon Radio and zone controls.
- Search hotkey: Ctrl + Alt + S opens it ready to type (or opens Roon's own search in the Wrapper, if you prefer).
- Hearts & Library (experimental): heart the playing track or album, or add it to your library, and see the audio quality light (Low Quality, CD Quality, Hi-Res).
- Auto-Hide: it goes back to the tray when you click elsewhere (or stays on the taskbar if you turn that off). Zoom, light and dark themes, and a window that fits your screen.
A "now playing" toast when the track changes. Click one to open the Toaster (or the Wrapper).
- In the corner and on the monitor you choose, for as long as you like (2 to 30 seconds).
- They stay out of the way of full-screen games.
A small player on your main taskbar with art, title, artist and playback buttons.
- Choose the side, position, width and one or two lines of text.
- Album Art colors: the Toaster, toasts, widget and Wrapper can take their colors from the album that's playing.
- Main artist only: tracks with a long list of supporting artists show just the main one (Settings > General > Artists).
- Hotkeys for the Toaster, Search and the Wrapper; all can be changed or turned off.
- Tray menu with Toaster, Wrapper and Taskbar Widget switches, plus Toasts and Start with Windows.
- Download the latest installer from the Releases page and run it. It installs for your user only and doesn't need administrator rights.
- Start Roon: Toasted. It appears in the tray, and Settings opens the first time to help you connect.
- In Roon, go to Settings > Extensions and enable Roon: Toasted. That's all the setup there is.
- Double-click the tray icon (or press Ctrl + Alt + Z) to open the Toaster.
To uninstall, use Apps & Features in Windows, or run the installer again and choose to uninstall. The uninstaller has an unticked checkbox to also delete the app's settings.
The installer isn't code-signed yet (a certificate costs money, and this is a free hobby project), so:
- SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway.
- Some antivirus programs flag new, unsigned apps by mistake. If yours does, the full source is right here to inspect, and you can allow the app or build it yourself (see below).
- Windows 11 (built and tested there). Windows 10 should work but hasn't been tested, and doesn't get rounded corners.
- A Roon Core on your network (Roon 2.x).
- Mac and Linux aren't supported, may be added later.
Do you have a Stream Deck? Roon: Dialed Up puts Roon on your Stream Deck buttons and dials, and can open the Toaster (or Search) from a button when Roon: Toasted is installed: Roon: Dialed Up on the Elgato Marketplace.
Other apps can open the Toaster with these links:
| Link | What it does |
|---|---|
roon-toasted://toggle |
Opens the Toaster, or hides it if it's open and in front |
roon-toasted://open |
Opens the Toaster on the Playing tab |
roon-toasted://search |
Opens the Toaster on Search, ready to type |
The app registers these links for the current user every time it starts.
While Roon: Toasted is running, http://127.0.0.1:58421/status (this PC only)
answers with JSON, so other apps can tell it's running:
{ "app": "Roon: Toasted", "version": "1.0.0", "roon": "connected", "core": "Roon Optimized Core Kit" }roon is connected, searching or reconnecting; core is the Core's name
once connected, otherwise null. No answer means it isn't running.
- Roon doesn't share everything with extensions. Hearts, library, audio quality and waveforms come from Roon's internal protocol instead, which is why they're experimental (Settings > Hearts & Library). There's still no queue reordering or clearing, and the Toaster can't open a specific page in the Roon app (the Wrapper can, since Roon is right there).
- Toasts are skipped while a game runs in exclusive full-screen mode, because showing one would minimize the game. Borderless windowed games get them.
- The taskbar widget is experimental. Windows doesn't officially allow apps to add to the taskbar, so the widget floats over it and may misbehave, for example after a display change.
- Roon: Toasted only talks to your Roon Core on your own network. The status check only answers on your own PC.
- Can't find your Core? Press Search in Settings > Roon Core. If that doesn't help, press Manual and type the Core's IP address (leave the port alone unless you changed it in Roon). Diagnostics, at the bottom of the same card, shows which network adapters were searched and which answered; Copy puts that on the clipboard for a bug report.
Needs Rust, Node.js and the Microsoft C++ Build Tools.
npm install
npm run tauri dev # run it while developing
npm run tauri build # build the installer (src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis)
Run it from a normal (not administrator) terminal. Some antivirus programs
quarantine Rust build scripts by mistake; if a build hangs or fails oddly,
allow the src-tauri/target folder.
App icons are generated from branding/app-icon-1024.png with npx tauri icon;
src-tauri/icons/icon.ico and tray.ico also use the simplified drawing
(branding/app-icon-small-1024.png, branding/logo-mask-small-1024.png) at
small sizes.
Updates are signed, so a build meant for release needs the private key (kept outside the repo, never committed) in the environment. In PowerShell:
$env:TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY = "$HOME\.tauri\roon-toasted.key"
$env:TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD = "<the key's password>"
npm run tauri build
node scripts/latest-json.mjs
The build writes the installer and its .sig to
src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis; the script adds latest.json there
(version, release notes from RELEASE_NOTES.md, the installer's URL and
signature). Upload all three to a GitHub release tagged v<version>. Installed
copies check that release for a newer version and offer it in Settings.
Before building, bump the version in src-tauri/tauri.conf.json,
src-tauri/Cargo.toml, package.json and package-lock.json, and write the
release notes to RELEASE_NOTES.md (also the text for the GitHub release).
Roon: Toasted is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. In short, you can use, change and share it, including inside larger projects under other licenses; if you share changed versions of these source files, those files stay under the MPL.
If the Roon team would like to use any part of this project, whether the code or just the ideas, I'd be glad to hear from you. Get in touch through my GitHub profile (Vulkandr) and we can work out terms that suit you.
- Built with Tauri (MIT or Apache-2.0).
- Roon connection: roon-api and roon-sood
by shin1ohno (MIT or Apache-2.0). Patched copies of both are included in
src-tauri/vendorunder their own licenses; seeVENDORED.mdin each folder for the changes. - Icons in the interface: Lucide (ISC license).
- Fonts: Gloock,
Lato and
Noto Sans, all under the
SIL Open Font License 1.1 (license files in
src/assets/fonts), packaged by Fontsource.
Roon is a trademark of Roon Labs LLC. Roon: Toasted is an independent project, not made or endorsed by Roon Labs.