Desired features for Roon remote and ARC

Hey, really enjoy arc as way to listen on the go.

After a couple months there have been a couple things I’d love to be added.

First, an option to turn off fullscreen mode in android.
After 10 years of having navigation buttons on the bottom of my screen, it’s exceedingly frustrating to be tapping library or search when I wanna go back or to my home screen.

Second, a mono audio option would be great. I often listen with one IEM and using my phone’s build in mono audio setting adds in unwanted distortion.

For Roon remote, to be able to order tracks by date added would be nice.

Additionally on remote (and on desktop) a way to flip the order of a playlist would be excellent. It gets tedious to scroll to the bottom to listen to newly added songs.

Finally, for remote a pill for playlists to scroll down to the bottom without having to swipe past hundreds of tracks would save a lot of time.

Cheers!

Edit: When I mention roon remote I mean the portrait only version of the app.

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Mono can be done with DSP I think, but so far only in regular Roon, not ARC, there are posts / threads about it. Maybe this helps:

There is also a feature request here:

DSP support for ARC is on the roadmap

Ordering tracks by date added is possible at least on desktop and tablet. Add the column and sort by it:

In playlists there is the same but it goes by added to library, not added to playlist, so probably not what you want there. Maybe the last played column helps a bit.

For scrolling at least on iPad there is a scroll bar to drag without swiping. I seem to remember it exists on Android too

Generally for feature suggestions it works best to create them one by one in Feature Suggestions where they will receive a vote button allowing users to add their support for specific requests

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Hey there,

Appreciate your response.

Nice to see dsp is on the roadmap for arc.

Not to be rude but otherwise you have just told me that all these features I want exist, just not on the devices I’m asking them for. I perhaps should have been more specific and said on a non-tablet version of Android. I don’t ever plan on buying a tablet or entering the apple ecosystem. So not really helpful…

Thanks for letting me know the better channel to put feature suggestions though, I doubt I’ll copy and paste this post into there though.

Sorry for wasting my time. Yes, I told you that they exist where they exist. Hardly my fault if you don’t specify more precisely what you mean.

Regarding not wanting to buy a tablet: Your choice, but the phone screen is simply small and there will always be limitations. There is a lot, much beyond these things, that Roon does not offer on a phone.

Some things, like the scroll bar in playlist without having to swipe, do exist on the Android phone version as well, by the way Ah not true. It exists in the playlist overview, but not in a single playlist. This sucks. Generally there has been a loss of scrollbars over time, sadly

I updated my post to reflect the devices I meant for.

And don’t feel bad for trying to help.

Re: scroll bar on android it exists in tracks but not in playlists! Really tedious inconsistency.

Yes it is tedious

ARC:

I’d love it if we could see only the artists whose albums we’ve downloaded in offline mode.

I often like to find albums by going to a particular artist first and having only the artists that have downloaded albums in offline mode would be extremely useful.

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