Getting started with Roon ARC

Free to all Roon subscribers, ARC is a brand new mobile app for iOS and Android that connects to your Roon Core over the air, giving you access to all your files and streaming content no matter where you are.

[joacwoot]

This is best thing since sliced bread. Also what finally made me go for the lifetime subscription. I am now 700 dollars poorer, but very very happy. Thanks Roon team! Well done!!

[jchildress]

ARC and Roon 2.0 work amazing! Thank you so much for this release!

[svalbard]

Congratulations Roon, I'm delighted to be able to connect away from home without using 3rd party apps. Thank you!!

[TreyCounce]

What can you say? There is nothing I've found better than Roon. Thank you so much for being awesome!

[Anatoly_Panchenko]

The roon is more than perfect audio player, it is an interesting magazine, a carefully engineered window to the world of music.
The roon arc is just like the dark side of shiny mine roon application.
In short: the roon arc unable neither to configure network, no diagnose it. Even if you was lacky enough to have an internet provider, that can to support a roon arc connection to roon server, you steel need to setup that connection manually. And still, there are internet providers, that roon arc just isn't working with.
My previous provider stopped to support private clients, and I was forced to move to another internet company. With first prowider I spent a time to manually set up the port forwarding, now, with new provider I spent several days trying forwarding ports, DMZ, and disabling interfaces and disabling firewall with no result. At the same time NAS and private cloud, and sharing working perfect using just UPnP without manually tuned ports, routes and so on.

[johnmc]

Does you PC or Mac have to be on while you are using roon?

[dextergonzalezrivera]

I already have all my music library in my iPhone. Is there any tool or way to discover it using Roon Arc? Because I am talking about 2, 000 albums in different resolutions and formats and download them one by one from my core do not make me sense.

[JasonBrown]

When you say "your home network will need to be configured to allow this connection", do you mean port forwarding? And does the auto-config rely on UPnP? If so, how long until there is a secure way to access ARC via a proxy for those who don't know how to set up a VPN?

[BilginOzkan]

I got so excited that I'd finally be able to use my Roon home setup on my work computer, but nope, Android and iOS only. Is a desktop Roon Arc client in the works?

[mitcht]

Why would you need this if you have a music subscription service like Tidal or Qobuz? ....you have access to their 100 million song libraries anywhere you have the internet.

[KanyeHemiTalkin]

Dang! I wished this worked. I followed setup directions got the “Roon Arc Ready” but no music. “No audio zone selected” is my only joy. Must I setup my iPhone as its own zone?
<Edit> Follow up: I had to uninstall/reinstall Roon Arc and restart Roon to get it to see Roon Arc (iPhone) as an output zone. FYI and FWIW. But now it works great and seems like a small miracle.

[TheJosa]

If you could say how to set it up, this video would be helpful

[cowboybrickfan]

This feature is a very long time coming, however, It is unacceptable to release Roon ARC without the option to disable or configure the security accessing the Roon Core. How are we to know that security was implemented well or even at all? Are we just suppose to take their word for it? In order to prevent public access to the Core you have to disable UPNP on your network, which could effect other network device communication. You would need to be tech savvy to ensure the public connection is secure.

[TomaszMadejski]

Jak połączyć aby działało po za domem na telefonie ARC Roon?

[imaxximus]

Ugh, I downloaded the new Roon remote before updating core. Only to learn my Mac mini core needs to be updated to a new computer. Then learned about legacy iOS software, which I downloaded. Only to find the legacy iOS version won’t work with the regular 1.8 core. Aaarghhhh.

[smcchris]

This roon 2.0 need NEW MAC MINI ? I using Mac mini 2012 os 10.14 but cannot update to 2.0 . Need to update mac os to 10.15.7? Or need to change mac mini to M1…

[bitflea]

If you are using a Mac as a core it won’t work because if the Mac Lock Screen or screensaver kicks in ARC won’t connect.