I just don’t know another way to make music streaming from my home collection via cellular. And with every good stuff that roon offers. Including Opra.
I did say (for me)
I am beyond my travelling days , I am retired , if I leave the house its to shop and back so I am not at all typical. I still use my good old iPod 160 Classic in the car !!
That said I invested in a big SD card .for holidays and the like. Our (South African) cellular costs are too high to make ARC a viable proposition anyway
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Now….if offline Arc could work like your old iPod 160….just imagine. And if you could load up your music onto that 1 TB SD card. Just think. That would be amazing.
I think it is totally doable for Roon to make this happen and at some point I think they will. I still remember that Arc specific survey they conducted a couple years back (was it that long now??)something must come from that….maybe
I too have iPod classic in collection, but these days it sounds awful. 
I prefer good quality headphones and ARC on iPhone. But it makes me cry sometimes.
I don’t bother with ARC for playback of music on the phone. I use UAPP which handles the music files on the phone with it’s own audio engine giving me Hi Resolution Playback.
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How can you have 17000 albums and listen to them (you don’t). I saw a huge collector once say he listens to every album at least twice before he puts them out in his physical library. Not comprehending what you are all doing with these massive libraries.
You may not listen to them all. But having a collection like that is pretty cool. You can build some good playlists or just Roon radio. It’s an addiction….
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From time to time I listen everything. Plus I like to have it in me possession. All those streaming services tomorrow could just disappear. And I will still have all those albums just in one small box.
Its a wasting disease called “Hoarding” ,
I am not sure of the Latin name But itis highly addictive and often contagious 
The continuing existence of service like Tidal is actually a good point , from lots of odd reports it’s not the most profitable business to be in. It’s why JRiver refuse to get involved , JimH doesn’t see it lasting. His answer is to get his users to add files to a cloud repository that all users can then access. Not a lot different from a MASSIVE library (currently 720K tracks) , just not one person’s. I am not sure how the licensing is managed though !!
Yes, it’s obsession. Sure. But very cheap comparing to vinyls or CDs.
Especially if I don’t care about license. 
Why don’t you create 2 storage folders for your music. One for the stuff you actually listen to and the other one that is dormant inventory? If you run ARC, disable the dormant location. Easy enough.
I have successfully done that, with the core library ´I am actually listening to´ cut down to a woeful 56k tracks, and some more ´back catalogue´ folders. Guess what? I rarely touch or enable the latter, and every time I do, I notice that I would have found the music on these more easily on Qobuz.
Not judging anyone here, but with my collection, any tendencies towards hoarding got obsolete, when I tried to perfection metadata to a quality I can really take advantage of roon´s unique features like discographies, composition and recordings lists. Just decided, that it was not worth investing time and effort into the ´back catalogue´.
mine is also split 1/3 archive , 2/3 Active , never want for the archive , its all in Tidal anyway
90% of my library already have proper tags and 99% roon easily found with all additional materials.
Not convenient. So I have to switch on and of all the time? And how I can guess what is “archive”? I know for sure that if I put something in “archive”, I will want to listen it immediately as I leave home.
I just use Roon’s new My Albums → Random sort view and select an album to play. No repeats for the next 150 years of listening!!
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Yes
So do I but I can not tell ARC not to load all library on mobile phone, just new albums. There is no option of this kind.
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Lol Reduce library size! Blasphemy for ius audiophile fanatics! I’ll just use plexamp which works great and sadly be resigned to the dream of roon combination of streaming and hard drive music being a fantasy that only worked well when I was a beta tester for arc with a library of prob around 200k tracks then.
Thanks for sharing the facts @Suedkiez .
When I do a genre shuffle it’s musical magical bliss that your small library will never be able to match. Better than any algorithmic playlist and the majority of djs. Plus there are genre combinations that no on this planet or very few could match. You don’t know what you’re missing. But I guess you get to use ARC.
I do wonder if there could’ve been a better architectural choice or way to solve this problem that Roon has not invested in and instead focused on lame services like nugs integration and opra.