Roon & ARC have become incredibly unreliable for me - what is going on?

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I just found two other topics where the symptoms are very similar to ours.

ARC Connection Not Stable

Hi again @connor, As an experiment I set up a new core on a different machine, which has double the RAM and a better CPU. The storage drive is also different. At first I tried restoring a backup from the previous core and then I tried again with a completely fresh DB. The result is that ALL of my usual problems are still happening with the new core: The core freezes regularly and requires a restart Most of the time, album titles are not reported to Bluetooth metadata Roon Radio forgets its o…

Skipping tracks via Bluetooth on ARC crashes core

I also started having these core freezes recently. I think for me it started happening only after I reinstalled my core with a fresh DB (with/without restoring a backup later) in an attempt to fix a different Arc issue. It’s gotten so bad recently that I installed TeamViewer on the core machine and wrote a batch file which exits the Roon Server app and restarts it so I can do it from my phone when I’m not home… Hope the next set of Arc performance improvements will make it go away (latest upda…

And this morning it crashed again.

@benjamin
@connor

Help, please.