Welcome to the Roon community, @Jeffiston.
Roon neither publishes a roadmap nor comments on upcoming new features.
Sad thereās no roadmap or upcomings. Thereās no option to root my device to link Arc to SD.
Btw there are numerous of other nice suggestions which Iād like to see in future. Hope they are going be implemented and Iāll come back to Roon.
Iām just amazed this really basic requirement hasnāt been implemented as yet. Another disappointed DX260 user here, who canāt download anything to the deviceā¦
Just got a DAP to use Roon Arc mainly and was devastated not to be able to choose the sd card. Itās one of those things that messes up my idea of going full Roon OTG.
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I agree that this is a staggering problem.
I was excited, amazed, and buying into this ecosystem throughout my trial. I had already ordered my Nucleus, and was getting ready to go Lifetime. Iāve installed the app across my audio setup, looked at upgrading my home internet connection ā and am now seriously reconsidering all of it.
My DAP -the reason I want Roon in the first place- has only limited internal memory, does not have mobile internet, is locked down in terms of Android installation, and wonāt allow me to use the trick mentioned above. I have a 1TB micro-SD in the device, and it is useless. I canāt use ROON to access the files on the card, and ROON canāt put files it can access on it either.
In other words, relying on Roon has gone from an exciting and inspiring solution to somehow being a guarantee I wonāt get to bring the music I like with me. I am seriously considering sending back the Nucleus when it arrives. I donāt think Iāve ever gone from ātruly amazed, will tell all my friendsā to ādeeply disappointed, glad I havenāt started raving about it yetā as fast as this on any service or product - and the fact that its over something as obvious as this is insult to injury.
I guess Iām just very sad about this. Itās so rare that you find a well-considered, beautiful solution like this for any problem nowadays, and it is just staggering to me that it fully falls apart over a feature most student apps have.
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Tuned on Force apps to SD on Samsung S20, reinstalled ARC, but ARC still only shows internal storage 
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My sub expires in October. Will wait until then. Every player I have used has this, except Roon Arc.
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I would be very interested also. DAPs donāt have 5G connectivity, and their internal memory is often small (mine has 32GB, minus 15~18 GB for the system). So unless I can store more music on an external storage via Smart Download, RoonARC is not an ideal solution.
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Just bought a shiny new Walkman. Iām amazed you canāt put Arc music on the SD card. Roon is becoming more useless to me.
Whatās the point of Arc if I canāt listen to my music on a DAP? They all come with next to no storage. Now I have two libraries, what a mess.
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Same experience with my new DAP. Arc needs to be able to locate smart downloads on an sdcard
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