Roon Radio is one of the best features in Roon. You start from a track or artist, and it builds a listening session on the fly. The problem is what happens when it's over. The session is gone. No playlist saved. No way to go back to the artist you heard twenty minutes ago and forgot to save.
If you've ever finished a Roon Radio session thinking "I wish I'd written those down," you're not alone in that frustration.
Roon's "Similar Artists" tab helps, but it stays close to what you already know. A handful of well-known names in the same genre. Useful, but it rarely surprises you.
I'm a Roon user myself. I kept running into the same wall: great listening sessions I couldn't recreate, and recommendations that never went deep enough. So I built a tool to fix both problems.
Sonic Oracle is a music discovery tool for Tidal and Qobuz. You type in an artist, choose a discovery depth, and it builds a playlist of up to 25 connected artists saved permanently to your streaming library.
Because the playlist lives in your Tidal or Qobuz library, Roon picks it up instantly. No syncing. No importing. No extra steps. Create a playlist on your phone, and it's ready to play on your Roon setup.
Three depth levels: Essential stays close to the original artist. Balanced expands the range. Adventurous goes deep into territory Roon Radio and Similar Artists will never reach.
Roon Radio is great for passive listening. Sonic Oracle is for active discovery. Every playlist is permanent and editable. Swap out artists you don't want. Remove artists so they never appear again. Run the same search twice and get different tracks each time.
It covers niche genres most platforms ignore. If your taste runs into gypsy jazz, krautrock, fado, darkwave, or any sub-genre off the beaten path, the results go there.
And the recommendations come from a proprietary engine that maps artist connections through patterns most algorithms miss, not through what a platform is promoting.
Go to sonicoracle.music and connect your Tidal or Qobuz account. Three playlists are free, no credit card needed. After the trial, it's $9.99/year or $29.99 lifetime.
Create your first playlist, open Roon, and hit play.
Try Sonic Oracle