Yup that’s pretty typical. I’ve been reporting this for a year now. No one seems to really care.
That’s really a shame
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Thanks all. We’re well aware of this issue, but have had lots of difficulty reproducing it in house. It’s something we plan to tackle soon.
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I’m not on the early access version, but also seeing high battery usage from Arc when not in use - one time it completely drained the battery overnight.
This is on a Pixel 6.
Is there likely to be a fix anytime soon? Happy to test an early access build.
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Since the latest update, I am on ARC 1.0.59 and build 100308, I have noticed extensive battery usage when using the app. It is even worse when opening a playlist, starting playback and leaving it there. The phone gets really hot and drains battery like crazy, about 30 % in 40 min. After stopping playback I have to manually close the app (end the task) to get it to stop using battery. Phone is a Samsung A52 on Android 14.
What to do?
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I heard and I’m not going to say how or where but I will say I know for a fact the Roon team knows this drain is real and that it’s on their radar right now.
I have the same problem recently. I’m on build 324 and think it started with this build. On a Samsung A52s.
Arc opens in my car because of the DAC connected but often I don’t use it and it stays in the background. The last couple of days I’ve noticed an extreme high battery usage even in the background.
I hope that @michael and @Early_Access are reading this.
This has been going on for over a year now. It’s not new, but easy to miss if one isn’t paying attention and got used to the drain.
It appears to be new in my case. I’m sure it wasn’t there earlier because I always look very closely at the battery usage of my phone.
Thanks for the reports all. This is something the development team will be looking at shortly. In the meantime, if you can note any conditions which seem to happen in tandem with high battery usage, that would be very helpful.
Background usage is the main issue for me - I have ARC setup to automatically open when Bluetooth connects to my car, but even if I never play a thing through it, and spend only 20 mins in my car in the day, it is the highest battery usage app.
In my car Arc starts because of a connected USB DAC. Other than that my situation is the same as that of @dhusky. Battery usage can go up to 15% even without using Arc during driving.
I just found this thread. I am on latest Android, and latest early access versions of Roon and ARC. I get a lot of background battery usage by ARC, sometimes just completely obliterating my phone battery if I don’t manually shutdown the app after use.
Is anyone using any security software or ad-blocking tools?
In my situation it turned out logs were being held up on my phone because NextDNS was blocking ARC’s ability to send logs to Roon. I had to whitelist a few domains and since I did that battery drain has been normal on my Pixel 9 Pro XL.
I whitelisted the following:
*.datadoghq.com
*.browser-intake-datadoghq.com
*.crashlytics.com
*.0.datadog.pool.ntp.org
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I see that ‘browser-intake-datadoghq.com’ is blocked by Blokada on my phone too.
@michael, can you confirm that this web service is used by Roon?
Could this blocking be the cause of the problem? I’ll try to test it in the upcoming days.
Cheers, Joost
Hey, yes this our service for storing logs on the cloud. We’ve had another user who had this blocked and it was a major source of battery drain. However, we’ve added some logic on ARC’s end to cease trying if it’s blocked.
@AlejandroLC could you better advise for tests we can run to see if the Datadog desist logic is working as intended?
Alternatively @Joost_Hoogland you can try whitelisting datadog and see if that alleviates the battery drain.
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Hi @michael,
I didn’t use Arc until yesterday.
Did test it today and even without whitelisting the battery drain is gone for me. So, very good work!
What would be the advantage of whitelisting datadog?
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The app would be able to store logs in the cloud 
Generally, lots of apps use Datadog for this. The service as such is legit.