Hey Greg, welcome! Do you mean that you are unable to start ARC’s Android Auto app from the head unit of your car?
So, in Developer mode and having allowed apps from unknown sources, Arc is working on my head unit.
Few bugs, playlists and artists aren’t showing up and albums only show up intermittently.
When it does show up, it works really well and Roon radio works great.
I did find a couple of times that the track time wasn’t showing up properly and after about 60 minutes, the play queue didn’t start when I got back in the car, but that sometimes happen with Qobuz, so it might be an Android Auto issue.
Still no luck for me, even with the dev trick, nothing is showing on Android Auto. (Android 12 and Note 10).
Michael,
In my opinion, ARC Android Auto has two potential advantages over either the AA implementation of Qobuz or Tidal.
- The ability to play music from both services and,
- The ability to access all your music by artist. Roon automatically indexes artists in Room ARC. This is a feature that neither Qobuz nor Tidal does.
To me, ARC AA has to have features that the others don’t. When you consider that any AA version is operating in a car with wind and road noise, quality has to take a back seat, as long as it is comparable with the competition.
My conclusion is that being able to access by artist, information which is available in Room ARC, makes or breaks the Roon ARC AA app. Right now, if you do an A-Z search by artist, you get a small sample of all artists.
Today, I do not see a reason to use Roon ARC AA. Quboz, even with its short comings, is to me a better alternative.