Now I can use these headphones more, and I use Roon much more than I used to, because at home when listening to music I mainly listen with my first party high end gear as opposed to using Roon as background
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I love Roon Arc in my opinion it’s a game changer. It allows you to take your music everywhere. Just your music and nobody else’s or discover new music on cubs when you’re driving around or walking way cool
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So, it’s now we’re cool to give my nucleus a work out from a far as opposed to being at home since it’s on all the time. It also makes it much more cost-effective to use all the time at home and on the road.
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Game changer for me…able to listen to Roon on the go. I tried Plex before…way too complicated for me. The port forwarding required with ARC was simple compared to Plex. Besides having roon with me in the office or on a flight or the other end of the world is amazing. Software needs some ironing out of small issues…e.g. a couple of files downloaded to my iPhone 13 pro wouldn’t play in airplane mode. I expect updates will fix these small issues. YoutubeMusic initially acted weird with downloads too…I had to start playing the file before going offline for it to play in airplane mode. Really big for me is not having to touch Tidal app anymore with its hip hop centric user interface and algo.Well done Roon team.
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I simply love ARC. It is a game changer for me as it allows me to have my „SPOM“ - single point of music. 
When full CarPlay support is there, that will be even better.
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Depends on your provider and where you are but broadly LTE is more than fast enough. I’ve noticed my Verizon LTE performance has fallen considerably in the last two years or so, but it’s still 5X what is needed to stream 192/24.
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I have to say I was initially a naysayer. I just didn’t see the point of ARC especially as I have a very small library of local files, I stream everything when I’m out using Qobuz or Tidal app, and it took me almost a month to get it working on my system.
However, having tried it for the past few days I’m a convert. Having access to all my favorites, playlists and streaming services all in one app is fantastic. And once I got it working, it has worked flawlessly. I’m currently playing a Roon playlist I previously wouldn’t have access to.
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Welcome to the dark side! 
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One week working away from home and Arc never burped once.
In the car, in the factory, in the hotel, in the restaurant.
Wifi, cell data.
Nothing fazed it.
Playing high quality all the time as well.
Adding albums, removing albums, adding tags etc.
Outstanding performance IMHO.
A convert as I was absolutely a non believer in even wanting to try it.
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Mines been a story of two half’s. Downloads have been an utter disaster but streaming albeit I can’t do it all the time due to the limits of the cellular reception where I am has worked without issue.
One thing I have noticed is the DragonFly Black I brought is not suitable as the output to headphones is too damned loud with all my iems I can’t go over 2 without it hurting. So had to go to my BT adapter for my Shures.
Totally.
Right now, after lot of updates I can enjoy my vast music library without issues on my android phone.
Also they added MUSE, so its almost perfect right now.
Thanks for the best update possible for remote users. Next chapter should be complete roon experience from a pc outside your network.
I’m not sure it’s a game changer - but definitely a useful addition and will help Roon to remain ‘sticky’ for those who might look at alternatives. I recently drove across France listening via ARC and my playlists are gradually transitioning from Spotify, which I traditionally used in my car. So I may cancel Spotify as ARC does what I need with the added benefit of having my personal library available.
Yes 
In the car it works just fine - Great.
Now it “just” need it to be bit perfect on my DAP - Than I am happy
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I live in Florida, USA and, as in South Africa apparently, data rates (or services offering unlimited data) are prohibitively expensive (especially for folks living on fixed incomes – and yes, many folks of modest means also love music and quality audio…)
Here in Florida lightning storms are, as many in the US may know, a very common occurrence throughout a very long summer season. I routinely shut down all my electronics during such outbreaks and when travelling during the season.
Many parts of Florida, including the one I live in, are routinely, if not frequently, plagued with power outages and ambiguous fluctuations caused by a lot of factors – all adding up to ARC being, at least while away from home for any period longer than a day, basically useless.
I’ve used soundiiz to make sure all my playlists are duplicated on qobuz so I can use their app to play the stuff I want remotely.
I imagine many “use cases” will make the answer to @Loke_Kwang_Han’s question a very vigorous, “Nope” for folks who value Roon as an in-home solution and have little use for the rather ungainly mobile ARC in light of other, more elegant and reliable, solutions.
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It is for me.
- The opportunity to listen to my music in the format I want beats any Streaming service app
- The ability to apply FR for each different set of headphones and DAC combination. Where a dongle DAC with IEMs, Sports headset, or InCar.
- Better quality that the Streaming service apps - who knows what level of compression they are applying.
- Ability to store online in the format I wish to have it in.
However, I do have 5G GSM service alot of the time, if not 4G, and unlimited broadband at home, with a 50Mbit/s upload speed.
I noted a user last October noted that Roon Arc could not shuffle through large libraries and handle large playlists and am wondering whether that’s still the case after the latest update
For me not yet! Until the USB driver comes out of Beta on Android I won’t/can’t use ARC.
Currently everytime the track specs change my HiBy FC6 Dongle DAC does not switch the resolution automatically.
Whereas this in not the case when I use USB Audio Player Pro. That works just as it should.
Have you tried setting sample rate conversation in Muse to help with this?
In order to get bit perfect audio to the DAC I have to leave the Sample Rate Conversion to “For combatibilty only” setting. The other settings on offer
do work but are not ideal for me.
I would like the DAC to play the original sample rate of the track. UAPP, HiBy Music and even the Tidal app do this without any issue.
BTW my FIIO BTR5 works well with Roon ARC, but not the Hiby FC6.
Was a member of the early release program and ran it for a couple of weeks from my office. Was the only use case I could think of as streaming on a cellular plan is not a viable option when it comes to data use.
Too many hiccups and issues with the frequent changes in ARC along with occasional trouble with my firewalls made me stop using it. Game changer for me? No.
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