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Been over a month since Roon stopped working with Airport/AirPlay… Anyone found a way to get it back on track?
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My latest info to share is that a few of the Airports sometimes work, but others still don’t work, even if the appropriate lights on the routing display on Roon are all showing green. I reboot everything… no change. I then try Apple Music or Qobuz Connect - and everything works fine in the zones where Roon will not work. Any updates from Roon any time soon?
Hi @Henning_Oppedal and @Robert_Masters,
The investigation is still on-going, and we don’t have any new information to share, unfortunately. You have my apologies here!
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Any updates? I am asking the question out of curiosity and also to keep this thread alive. Thanks.
Hi @Robert_Masters,
Thanks for your continued patience. Our investigation into this issue is still ongoing. The team has encountered some difficulty reproducing the problem on our end, but we’re continuing to test and explore potential causes.
In the meantime, as a workaround, you can try streaming directly to your iOS device and then using AirPlay from that device to your desired zone. This should allow playback to work while we continue our investigation.
Please let us know if you run into any issues with that workaround or if you have any additional details to share that might help us with reproduction.
Hi Daniel. I am doing this now via my phone. And it functions in a basic way. That said, only the phone can see what is going on. All other devices do not show the phone or what is playing. So it’s a lame workaround and not very satisfying.
At my end, some of the Airports are working, but the living room is still problematic. It works fine with Apple Music, Qobuz and also now with Roon via the method you are suggesting. So… I am buying a different Airport just to change out the living room unit… and see what happens. It should be here in a few days and I’ll let you know what we find. This seems crazy, but for $30, I’m happy to try an unorthodox fix to this situation.
Hi @Robert_Masters ,
If you navigate in Roon → Device Setup and turn off Private Zone functionality, then the phone zone should be visible to all Roon Remotes.
It is perfectly normal for an airport express to only have a local link IP address 169.254.x.x) They do not normally need to connect to the Internet. They just need to connect with local computers. So long as the local computer (including your Roon server) also has a local link IP address (which it can have in addition to its standard IP address), that computer should be able to communicate with it within your LAN.
Any word? The latest update changed nothing at my end.
Hi @Robert_Masters,
I’m sorry there aren’t any updates to share yet, but we’ve escalated the ticket for your case. Our team is still actively investigating, and we’ll keep you posted as soon as we learn more. Thank you again for your patience.
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Latest update. I purchased another AirPort Express and added this into the system. I put the new AirPort Express in the location where the living room AirPort Express had been. I started by selecting just the new AirPort device. And it played! I then added the Airport feed for the office. The living room feed continued to work, but the office was not working. I then disconnected the living room feed and tried to get the office feed to work on its own. No luck. I then turned off the office feed and tried to play just the new living room feed. And it stopped working. Now nothing works via Airplay with Roon. We are back to where we were when I originally reported this problem. For reference, I then launched Qobuz Connect and tried all of the Airport devices as both single or multi room feeds. Everything is working perfectly… just not with Roon.
Hey @Robert_Masters,
Thanks for the update, and I’m sorry to hear you only had proper playback for a brief period from one of your zones!
If you power down your audio and network chain, and reboot everything, are you able to get playback just to your living room zone again? At least in this case you’d be able to get some playback while we continue to investigate this issue.
We’ve shared your update with development as well - we’re still in the process of trying to reproduce this in-house, unfortunately.
Let us know, thank you!
Hi Benjamin. We had a power outage recently, so everything was rebooted. Also done again since your last message. Today the bedroom feed works (didn’t sit around to see for how long), but nothing else works (on Roon). No single or group feed does anything apart from show a green light and proper signal path… but the timeline does not show any action - and I can listen to pins dropping in the room. No sound.
I am happy to do whatever I can to help your team… a screen share session so you can see my setup? Not sure what else to offer since I have followed every instruction or idea presented in this thread.
It would be nice to get this all up and running properly asap, since we are paying monthly for a service which does not currently do the one main thing that we desire from Roon… reliable multi-room playback. So how do we get to where we were in May 2025 when everything was working 100% rock solid with multi-room Roon/AirPlay streams? Many thanks.
Hi @Robert_Masters,
Thanks for checking in. The ticket is still with our development team, but there haven’t been any updates just yet. As you’ve probably noticed, progress on this issue is slow. The team is still working to narrow down what’s happening behind the scenes.
As soon as there is more information to share, you’ll be the first to know! Thanks for your long-standing patience here. 
Hi Benjamin.
Thanks for your reply. The latest at my end is that one Airport Express (bedroom) gets a feed and an old Cambridge Audio Airport speaker works. All other devices show as active, but Roon doesn’t actually play anything (playhead icon does not move) and there is no sound. I have tried with single outputs, or groups. But this can change at any time, with the bedroom not being able to play music - and maybe the library going back on line. Very random and unpredictable.
I do hope that your team can figure this out. I have almost $6K invested into hardware to run Roon (Dedicated i9 SGC server, linear power supply, expensive power cables, interconnects, etc) - and it is essentially gathering dust whenever I want to have multi-room playback. The system worked flawlessly until that recent software update, so I am hoping that Roon can figure this out and get me back to having a functioning system. Please let me know if you want me to try anything at my end.
Thanks for your help.
Thank you for the update @Robert_Masters - our team is still discussing things internally, but no official updates or next steps to share yet.
We’ll absolutely be in touch if there is anything else needed from you! Thanks again
Hi Benjamin. Any news? At my end, I went through the task of adding each Airport to Apple Home (a rather cumbersome chore only made possible by a set of instructions on Reddit). I was able to listen to Apple Music. But none of the devices showed up in Roon’s Settings/Audio setup page. I have now removed the Airports from Home and am back to enjoying multi-room music on Apple Music and Qobuz Connect, but still nothing with Roon. Thanks.
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This inability to maintain Airplay products as viable endpoints is troublesome, but does justify my decision not to purchase the lifetime membership.
I use Apple TV 2 units as endpoint for 3 rooms. Teoq in Ethernet, one on WiFi. The only glitch I deal with is what appears to be a data processing jam every now and then, with hi res files downsampling to Airplays 48. I get occasional pauses in sound that continue from where they stopped after about 2 seconds. An IMac doing very little except being a Roon server doesn’t seem to be keeping up.
Is there some setting that might address this?
All theee airplay endpoints pause simultaneously when run as a group.
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