Q: I have MANY albums favorited in Qobuz. Unlike Tidal, Qobuz puts no limit on how many artists, albums, and tracks you can favorite. However, using the Roon interface, a mere fraction of my favorited albums are showing up in Roon. Why? I know I have to “heart” the album/track in Roon to add it to my Roon library, but shouldn’t I see my entire Qobuz favorites list if I go in through the Browse>Qobuz>My Qobuz view?
I’ve dug through the settings and googled around to no avail, figured I would ask here before I resort to contacting Roon customer service.
I think this is what it said in my Settings before I set up ARC. If you aren’t using ARC, you can ignore it. If you are only using ARC on the same wifi as your Roon Server, you can probably ignore it too.
This is telling you that your router is not configured to forward the ARC port to your Roon Server. It is a router configuration setting. Let me know if I need to explain further.
I don’t think so. There is an Add To Library choice when you select the album/track and then you can “heart” it in Roon or not.
When I browse Qobuz Favorite Albums through Roon I seem to see all of the albums I added to my Roon Library, regardless of whether I “hearted” them in Roon or favorited them in Qobuz. Also there is a More button on the My Qobuz page that takes me to the complete list.
I think I was able to correct by going to the ARC settings and resetting the port to a different value, then resetting back to 55000. At least that worked for my phone using broadband only so it would not be on the same network.
I use ARC at work and in the car via Apple CarPlay.
Yes, you’re right. I eventually posted this question on the Roon help forums and found out that while Qobuz does not put any limit on how many albums/tracks/artists you can “favorite”, in Roon through the Qobuz menu you will only see a limited selection. To see my favorite list unlimited, I have to go through the My Library > Albums interface, which will show everything I have favorited in any connected source.
Still not really sure what “hearting” them in Roon actually does, but whatever. lol
It’s an additional filter if you look at your tracks or albums page in Roon, and click the heart at the top, you can filter to just those you’ve “favorited”.
Not personally sure how useful it is but that’s what it does,
FWIW this confused me for a long assumed there would be some separate favorites list, but that’s not how it works.
I was a little distressed to find that ROON ARC does not seem to be compatible with the GM version of Android on my new car. Fortunately I can get to in via Apple CarPlay, but would have liked to install it directly from Play Store.
Anybody know if this is a common issue and if/when it might be fixed? I thought I might be able to install it using a computer to install it on “other devices” but the car is greyed out.
Last was able to access my server with Roon Arc 12 days ago. I get the port error. Have not changed anything. Restarted ROON, changed the listening port and changed it back, no resolution. That worked last time I had the problem.
I’m lazy about troubleshooting. ARC works fine on my home internal net, so it’s clearly a problem with the listening port/server as the docs say.
But I didn’t change ANYTHING. Same router, software, even ROON version that worked like a champ for months. I’ve restarted ROON (But not the cable modem or Deco wi-fi router)
I’ve simplified connections to the MacBook Pro. It all goes through a hub. I guess I’ll have to look there - see if I’m hardwired or using Wi-Fi.
Each DECO has two Ethernet ports. I think I have it set up like this:
Cable Modem > Deco > 5 port switch Maybe I should be
Cable Modem > Switch > Deco. And hardwire my VOIP, Mac, and the LG PC to the switch???
Thoughts? I have to think (not easy, and I’m not at home) but would that expose my PCs directly to the net or does the Moto Surfboard cable modem do the basic router duty.
Looks good - I’ll try that. One use is in car - fortunately AirPlay is supported. As many vehicles next year are moving toward their own infotainment systems - or using Android Automotive - it does not look good for less than mainstream streaming.
If it’s working on your home network but not from outside it, you should try rebooting first your cable modem and then your router. Routers like to forget about port forwarding.
Thanks - I may do that sometime, but @earnmyturns solution worked. I now need to figure out an EQ for my car. The stock radio though fancy, has a bass, mid and treble control only, and I think I can do better with PEQ.
If anyone (I’m looking at you @Resolve) has a suggestion for car EQ… I thought I read that there was some dropout measured in the Cadillac LYRIQ at 300-400 hz… .
OK, @AudioTool and @earnmyturns - I’ve gone away for a long weekend and left the MacBook Pro running ROON and TailScale. I can see it just fine in TailScale. Roon ARC however started telling me that I’ve got that port forwarding error. It had been working well - or sort of well, now it’s crapped out.
At work, I can use ROON ARC on my iPad Pro connected to a closeby Comcast node. I had been able to run ROON ARC on my phone and on my iPad Mini after installing TailScale. In the car, Sometimes it works and sometimes it says there is a POOR CONNECTION. This is using ROON ARC in CarPlay. I often show decent broadband, and the phone is connected both via broadband and WiFi (The car has wi-fi, but gets better broadband than the phone because of the external antenna. It then has it’s own wifi router - it’s a hotspot).
So I guess when I go home I’ll have to try the power down modem and router … or maybe try to configure port forwarding manually.
Update - this morning, I checked the iPad mini with me and connected fine. But my phone was giving port forwarding on server message. Hmmm what could be the difference? I turned off cellular data on the phone and restarted TailScale. Voila (wahLA). Connecting.
It’s still wrong, but it’s working. Next to see how it goes in the car with cell data off.
I had a period where Arc wouldn’t connect to my phone even on my local network.
I ended up being told to clear its cache, that really shouldn’t make a difference, but it’s been fine since.
I’m not an ARC fan, it provides no value to me, but I’ve also found it to be stunningly unreliable.
I seem to have lost zones on my home net. Sonos, and all endpoints. iPad, phone and Samsung tablet all work as a controller but do not appear as zones. So I can’t use them for ROON music. Everything connected to the MacBook Pro is fine. Bifrost, Monitor, and the computer itself.
ROON support community says it happened with Sequoia, and is an Apple thing and has been reported. Other applications that broadcast to endpoints on the local Net also have this issue. Toggling the privacy settings for local network access has not helped although some people have had success.
Many years ago I worked for a Newspaper Holding Company as the PC support specialist. They had a whole group of people doing Apple support for the newspapers and I spent some time comparing notes with them. The one thing I came away with was the saying “With Apple it’s either easy to do something or impossible”. The only Apple product I use is an iPhone 13 issued by my employer. I don’t own anything Apple.
