Unable to Start Roon Server (ref#ANLPGP)

[Robert_F]

A few questions that may help:

1. If you are running Build 1353 or higher, make sure you have Roon Server running before you start Roon. Roon separated the Server (RoonServer.exe) portion from the user interface (Roon.exe) in the past month (November 8 for Build 1353):

Roon 2.0.25 is live!

What’s new in this release? Hello everyone, We are excited to begin rolling out a significant software optimization on Windows and macOS! This update will be made available to all users over the next week so please read on for all the details. Roon software optimization delivers the best Windows/Mac experience. Our team is always working to improve Roon. Alongside new features and functionality, there’s a continual stream of work aimed at advancing the performance of Roon regardless of platfor…

Roon also released an update, Build 1357, today:

Roon 2.0.26 is live!

Hello Everyone, Happy Holidays from the Roon team! With 2023 coming to a close and a new chapter of Roon starting with HARMAN, we are looking forward to all the excitement that awaits us. We were tempted to include a few surprises for this release, but ultimately decided that the final Roon release of 2023 should focus on performance and stability so that Roon can perform even better for everyone’s upcoming holiday events. We’re saving the exciting stuff for 2024 . In our last …

2. Do you have Windows firewall exceptions set to allow roon.exe, raatserver.exe, and roonappliance.exe on the PC you are using for Roon Server?