What’s changing?
In short: We’re simplifying how you install Roon on Windows and macOS, to offer more flexibility and better performance regardless of your configuration.
On Windows and Mac, the Roon Core will now run as a separate background process – Roon Server – accessible via the System Tray on Windows or via the Menu Bar on Mac OS.
Roon users can expect a seamless migration and while this won’t change how you use Roon day-to-day, it does mean a more flexible, lightweight, and performant version of Roon on Windows and Mac wherever you run your server.
Going forward, we will no longer offer Roon Server as a stand-alone installer for Windows and Mac. On these platforms, there will be a single Roon installer which will include the Roon application (for selecting music and configuring Roon) and Roon Server, for users that run their Core on Windows or Mac OS.
In these setups Roon Server continues to run in the background when you close Roon. If you’d like to shut down Roon Server on these platforms you can do that from the System Tray or menu bar.