They promised uncompressed music probably 2-3 years ago. Nope, no needle moving in either direction and the regular users don’t seem to care or they’d have left by now. My wife uses Spotify because they have a different album, language, and playlist mix than the US music providers. I think this follows from being based in Sweden, and that’s a good thing.
I lost interest in home music servers (e.g., Roon) with the rise of streaming services circa 2015. I don’t need another thing to maintain, and have my archival rips of rare CDs…but I don’t access those much.
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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.
Has anyone been getting “Check the ARC settings on your server” messages? I haven’t changed anything. Shows a “port forwarding issue”
Last saw the ROON Server 12 days ago….
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.
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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.
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So a Roon bug after all. Good to know. 
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.
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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.
Ideas?
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.
You can try to debug that — good luck — or you can try https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/arc-and-tailscale-connect-to-roonserver-without-port-forwarding which I started using a long while ago (well before the linked article) and always works.
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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… .
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