Hello Everyone,
Building off last cycle’s SSO testing and debugging, we’ve merged some performance improvements to both Roon and ARC that should help smoothen the edges of the overall user experience.
The release contains a peppering of UI refinements, as well as deeper changes to connectivity and audio that, in concert, should help reduce the frequency of playback and connectivity errors.
In Roon, we’ve shipped a potential fix to a long-standing vertical scrolling issue on iOS Roon Remotes. Additionally, this build has fixed a potential cause for the freezing and hanging behavior in Windows Roon Remotes.
As usual, we’ve also included other small fixes in Roon and ARC that have graduated the pipeline. Please see the Changelog for additional bugs squashed.
Thank you for your continued support,
The Team at Roon Labs
What’s new in this release?
Build Numbers
| Application | Version |
|---|---|
| Roon / RoonServer | (build 1302) earlyaccess |
| Roon Remote (Android / iOS) | (build 1302) earlyaccess |
| Roon ARC | (build 205) earlyaccess |
Changes
Roon:
- Improved scrolling behavior on iOS (Added Horizontal/Vertical motion lock when scrolling)
- Fixed an issue with .NET framework WindowsDriveDetector that can cause UI hangs
- Resolved display issue on Overview tab for artists with missing metadata
- Fixed an issue with some icy:// radio stations causing playback to be stuck
- Fixed issue with lock screen controls on Pixel/Samsung Android devices
- Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements
ARC:
- Improvements to buffering/playback start in ARC
- Removed unnecessary error popups interrupting ARC playback
- Potential fix for an ongoing ARC crash induced by certain USB DACs
- Backend implementation improvements for overall ARC performance
- Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements
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 | RoonServer |
| Windows: | Roon | RoonServer |
| 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.