Roon ARC

When a company starts talking about double NAT and port forwarding. You know they have gotten something fundamentally wrong. If Plex and others can do it, so can you. Not good enough, work it out.

The music software is great and I love the way it collates all my album files. But Arc while great, when it connects, is totally frustrating to troubleshoot. It keeps disconnecting from server on my PC. I’m sick of paying for this software after a year and thinking of dumping it with all it glitches. I just go with a streamer so easy on the go.

Totally pointless because you can’t see the Album track list after your have saved one track to your library . I contacted ROON support repeatedly and got no reply as they don’t consider this is an issue according to the support forum. For me not being able to view the album track list is like not have a play button . Makes what could be a great app useless.

I’m writing from the perspective of using my own media to stream remotely over mobile. I have tried Tidal and qobuz: these streaming services presumably would make for a better experience, but they are premium products and I am not deeming them necessary at this time. Streamers aside, the Roon ecosystem under review is great for music lovers, and the attention to detail from setting up genre-based playlists to abundant assistance with the tracks’ metadata is quite astonishing! Those positives save the day. However streaming my media over cellular has (to date) been a non-starter. Maybe it would work with lossy music? Redbook FLAC (16/44.1) will need fairly beefy iDevice storage to be accessed anywhere beyond your listening room. Good luck with downloading!

Thank you roon. I had to change my isp to make ARC work for me, absolutely worth it. Highly recommend.

Like many Australians living outside of the big cities, mobile data coverage can be very spotty. This is especially an issue with high quality, large audio streaming. Tidals iOS app is obviously rubbish, and their CarPlay app is even worse, but at least you can download the music. This is really the only option if you're driving around. Whilst I understand that it's the rights management issue raising it's ugly head once again, and as such I doubt will get addressed, the lack of downloading for Tidal is a bit of a show stopper for me. Shame as the app otherwise looks pretty decent

Some files keep showing as corrupt media. I found out all corrupted are files with non English names and it happens when they are downloaded

In my family 2 iPhones 15 pro and 16 Pro Max always crashing after something like 20 seconds, already installed 2 times it works like a week and then crashes again, it works fine in iPad, so it’s a real shame having this bug to fix for iPhone!!

Arc typically does not connect to the roon server. Since I mainly listen to Tidal and Qobuz, I largely abandoned Arc and use the native apps for Tidal and Qobuz. They work. Last time I tried Arc, it said there was a problem with my roon server and I should check the roon app for more information. The roon apps reports that Arc is properly installed and ready to use. Who has time for this circular silliness.

Can’t be that hard. You already have a workable interface with the regular Roon app.