Hello Everyone,
We’re excited to announce the latest updates to Roon and ARC, focusing on crucial fixes and improvements to recently released functionalities.
This Early Access release includes a number of Airplay improvements based on your feedback, with fixes for issues affecting AppleTVs and HomePods, as well as changes targeted at stability issues and problems starting playback on a number of other devices. We are still tracking a few issues related to HomePods but the list of known Airplay issues is getting shorter every day and we are hoping to release to Production soon!
If you are running Early Access, now is the time to enable your Airplay devices and test playback, grouping, device controls, and any other Airplay functionality to ensure Roon’s Airplay 2 support is rock solid! Please let us know about any issues you run into. And thanks everyone for all the testing and feedback over the last few weeks.
Additionally, this build fine-tunes support of voice controls for both Android Auto and CarPlay ARC integrations and will align the early access group with the upcoming production build.
Thank you for your continued support,
The Team at Roon Labs
Build Numbers
| Application | Version |
|---|---|
| Roon / RoonServer | (build 1414) earlyaccess |
| Roon ARC | (build 273) earlyaccess |
Updated versions for Android and iOS have been submitted to their respective App Stores and will be available soon.
Changes
- Signal path now correctly displays icons for Apple devices
- Resolved issue where one of the grouped devices produced silence during playback in certain cases
- Fixed issue causing certain Denon devices to fail to play over AirPlay 1
- Fixed issue causing certain Naim devices to fail to play over AirPlay 1
- Fixed issue causing certain devices running shairport-sync to fail to play over AirPlay
- Extended support for missing AppleTV devices over AirPlay 2
- Added ability to toggle ARC Shuffle Playback with voice commands in CarPlay
- Major improvements to the Android Auto voice assistant
Installation
Cores, remotes, and ARC installations already running earlyaccess should update automatically. If you need to reinstall, the latest earlyaccess builds can always be found at the following links.
| macOS: | Roon | |
| Windows: | Roon | |
| Linux: † | Easy Installer | Full Package |
| Nucleus / ROCK: | See Help Center | |
| Android APKs: | Roon Remote | Roon ARC |
† Information on loading Roon on Linux can be found here . Please use the files linked here in place of those from the help center article when loading earlyaccess.