So how about give us a (separate) lightweight iOS remote app? Something that can do standard Lock Screen controls and search library to pick an album or playlist or Roon Radio to play? Nothing else. Pick which zone the remote controls, done.
I suspect the real problem here is Xamarin, not iOS.
Xamarin is a bit slow to start, but notice that Roon is started for the majority of that delay. Itās because we have to sync up state with the Core and there is a lot of state.
There are other ways to avoid this without a new lightweight app, but there are only so many hours in the day.
I donāt doubt that this is a hurdle, but as I have said before there is some way around this even when music isnāt playing locally on a device. Spotify does it when Iām using it on my iPhone to control music thatās actually playing on Spotify on my PC. It does not get background killed, and itās always perfectly in sync between whatās displayed on my iPhone Lock Screen and whatās displayed / playing on my PC. No lag whatsoever.
Figure out what Spotify is doing, and make the Roon iOS app do the same. It might not be easy ā but Roon is a premium service and the lack of iOS Lock Screen controls is a huge deficiency because every other audio app does it. I imagine many, many customers are surprised and disappointed that it doesnāt work from the Lock Screen.
Weāre 40 minutes into 9 February in UTC! I want my update! 
Nugget, your bio says Space City USA 
wow. i have never seen this much excitement and participation on any other roon thread so far
If enough of us askā¦ Just mayyyyyybe we get a link to 1.8 tonight 
Not going to happen, they want to eventually get rid of the lifetime license option. They are more likely to raise the price or out right kill it with the new version rather then offer any sort of discount.
Thanks for the explanation.
Nor this much whining.
LOL! Ya know, there are some titles that for whatever reason arenāt complete in Qobuz. Not sure why but Iāve come across songs that Roon recommended only to be able to play two tracks or so out of the album. Luckily there hasnāt been anything I deem essential enough to warrant a physical purchase. But that could be the case at some point. Thatās one of the things that bugs me about streaming, sometimes selections get pulled from a service, or parts of it (a frequent occurrence on AmazonHD). If I do feel the need to buy something, I would certainly price check on Amazon or whatever online outlet first, the prices were almost always more favorable there, saving quite a few bucks at times.
Wait till after the release when the whining about the cherished feature they didnāt get really gets going.
Mobile Roon. OMG I canāt live without Roon to Go.
I bet itāll be the top whinge post 1.8.
OKā¦ ready to go!
Good morning February 9th.
Still lots of places in the world where itās still February 8thā¦
Did you stay up watching the Canucks?
Have you compared Roon Remote to JRemote with JRiver? JRemote seems to me to restart a lot more snappily, and it is doing a similar job.
itās 9th already, in Europe/APAC timezoneā¦ So when is 1.8 coming?