Roon ARC vs rooWatch

*** Roon ARC requires a valid Roon subscription *** ARC puts the best possible on-the-go music experience in your pocket and lets you enjoy your Roon library and all of Roon's immersive features wherever you are in the world. ARC is a custom-built streaming service powered by your Roon system at home. Explore your complete collection of artists, albums, playlists, and personal music files, plus TIDAL, Qobuz, and KKBOX streams. Discover added content from Roon's music experts and smart features, such as staff-curated playlists, Daily Mixes, New Releases for You, personalized recommendations, and Roon Radio. You can add albums to your collection, build playlists, set favorites, create tags, and more, just as you can in Roon. Offline listening lets you download your personal music files to keep the music playing wherever your adventures take you – even if you're off the grid entirely. ARC offers remote access to Roon's captivating library of in-depth artist bios and album articles, revealing the stories that take us deep into the heart of our favorite music. And there's more… Ready to hit the road? Your Roon library is too! Roon's browsing and discovery features fully integrate into your car's controls for safe and convenient playback. With ARC within easy reach of the wheel, every road you take is a journey in sound. ARC makes the driver's seat feel like your listening chair at home. ARC is designed to look and feel just like Roon. You get the same intuitive, aesthetically rich Roon interface you know and love, fully optimized for your phone. No more switching between streaming apps; ARC compiles all your music in one place for easy access and maximum enjoyment. And now, Roon's audio shaping suite and pristine sound quality have arrived in ARC - with bold styling never before seen in a mobile app! MUSE delivers the precision audio control of Roon when you're on the go or running a streamlined mobile setup with ARC. It places radically unique EQ handling, optimized balance control, precision volume leveling, FLAC, DSD & MQA support, crossfeed, headroom management, and sample rate conversion in the palm of your hand. You can customize sonic qualities to your specific tastes with MUSE, then save or apply them with a few clicks. To top it all off, MUSE even remembers your presets and reapplies them when you reconnect to a known device. The MUSE Signal Path display provides complete audio signal transparency as the music flows through your device - from source media all the way to your speakers. ARC offers artful design, sound quality, and a music listening experience unmatched by any other music app. Best of all, it's included free with your Roon subscription.

rooWatch is part of rooExtend, an extension platform and software for the Roon music server based on Raspberry Pi. rooWatch offers: - Full cover art with track and artist name - Always works: The Roon app does not need to run on iPhone or iPad - Use the digital crown to control the volume - Play/Pause music (tap screen) - Swipe ot next and previous track (swipe left/right) - Seek by tapping on the seek bar - Use Siri to control playback, play songs, artists, bands and albums, playlists and radio stations - Use Siri to search the Roon library - Browse Roon playlist and select tracks (swipe up) - Use Siri to search your library and select albums/artists/songs - Browse Roon, i.e. radio stations, playlists, library etc. (double tap) - Select and control different zones on Apple Watch (swipe down) - Full Roon zone control, including the transfer music to other zones (actions menu using long tap) - Enable shuffle and repeat modes (actions menu using long tap) - Shutdown playback devices (actions menu using long tap)