I have the same setup with a Mac Mini and music is on an external SSD attached to it. I only use the Mac Mini as a music server.
There is an app called Amphetamine that I run to keep my Mac Mini running 24/7.
Reading the Roon forum today Does Roon work without internet? [answered: no] - Roon Software - Roon Labs Community, and Dannyās responses, I do wonder if itās time for him to go.
I kind of like him. In an era when everyone blows smoke up your behind, he is straightforward. All of his customers may not like his answers, but he does provide clear answers.
ummmā¦ but he is Roon 
One of the love / hate relationships to be opinionated about is the factā¦
The story of Roon is some roommates who didnāt like any existing software to manage all the music in the house so they built their own. They implemented the functionality important to the roommates.
In a lot of waysā¦ I think Roon still operates this way. While I know thatās not entirely trueā¦ it still sort of comes across that way in Dannyās posts. And, you know what, I kind of love it. It shows heās still very much āa userā.
Iāll check that out. Thanks.
SEE
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My wife asked me what I changed in my system last night she said it is reallly sounding great. My only change was Roon 2.0. I had been feeling it was even more solid 3D images Qobuz or Tidal.
Perhaps it is better software processing?
Donāt get me wrong, I think Danny has gotten us this far, but I do wonder if Roon the company and user base have outgrown Dannyās skills as a communicator or a decider on key portions of functionality.
I personally wonāt have many internet issues. We have a 5G WAN2 connection for the Internet. But, reading posts now, I can see why thereās quite a few users who donāt have ābullet-proofā internet. Iām guessing there will be a fix to this issue before the year is out.
Iām a Roon lifer and have been for years. ARC has worked well for me for the two days Iāve had it up and running. I do have a couple of complaints though; the āTagsā that Iāve created arenāt currently available and also I wish that many more albums were downloadable.
I have relatively reliable internet with no caps, but donāt like the idea of an always on connection in Roon 2.0.
So Iām considering going back to Roon 1.8. But then the problem is that youāre frozen in time and wonāt get any of the non-mobile related improvements that they make to Roon 2.x.
Thatās the real bummer and only thing stopping me.
In other words, Danny has three letters to say to me: āSOL.ā
(For two years the wife and I left our professional careers and took a sabbatical living off grid in a 400 sqft cabin in the redwood forests in California. I realized very quickly how many always on things one has.)
I put a feature request in for tags in Arc during the beta cycle. I am not sure where it will be ranked.
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Iām a Roon lifer running a Roon Nucleus as my core and loving it. After 15 years without one, I recently got a cell phone out of necessity (two factor id crap) and am trying to figure out how to use it. I really didnāt need to have ARC dumped into my lap. I have enough puzzles to figure out as it is. My Nucleus is already updated, and Iāll eventually deal with the rest of the set up, but not now.
1500 miles in a car this weekend, so will see how 2.0 works.
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The good news is you donāt need to enable ARC if you donāt want to. The bad news is in order to use Roon your internet connection needs to be up and running.
How is this different from before?
TIA.
Before 2.0 when your internet connection went down, you could still play your local library. Now with 2.0 thereās a very good chance that you wonāt be able to play local files.
Yep. Major bummer
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Seems like a misstep to meā¦
FWIW.
You are in good company. The Roon forum has quite a few people up in arms.
I tested Audirvana tonight streaming to our Signature Rendu SE. Once I figured out how to enable the renderer on the Rendu it worked perfectly. I can see why people like it. Itās not really great for a shared environment, but for a single user itās quite good. With the short testing Iāve done, Iām not hearing a difference between Audirvana and Roon, but itās late and I am tired.
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