Replacing Roon - What Should I get?
I'm tired of Roon having brain farts. I have an original Roon Nucleus and have updated and augmented the Memory. This helped for a bit. But now, I keep having to reboot the darn thing.
It's not my network. I have checked it out and everything in the house works fine.
Here is the setup. A direct fiber optic link goes to the Router. Then ethernet to Roon from the Router. This way I get Roon to talk with the setup upstairs. I have an 35 foot ethernet cable that runs through the walls directly from the router into my dCS Lina.
I want to replace the Roon. I am thinking about an Innuos Stream. Just need a streamer that can hold Roon/Tidal. Don't need a DAC as the dCS does that quite well. I have a SSD in the Nucleus that holds a ton of my music that I want to move over.
Thoughts on what to replace the Roon with? Innuos (Stream) always get bandied about. I hear about Arender as well. I don't want to get an updated Roon.
I also wonder about deleting and reinstalling the Roon App on my iPads.
Thanks in Advance
I reboot it because if I don’t the app will constantly keep look for the Nucleus, find it, then drop again. Same happens when it is looking for the DAC/streamer (dCS or BlueSound). It will find it, then drop back to not showing it. Back & forth I go. When I choose some music it will just give me the icon swirl of death. What is a SGC ST?
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@pgaulke60 I also had that issue occur quite often of late. I resolved by removing other apps installed on the PC that were contending with the Raat server component of Roon core for resources. So the key to keeping it minimal appears to be to allow the Roon server to run efficiently and not be constrained. Also possible the extent of the problem might vary using different devices as Roon endpoints. |
Is the dCS Lina in your main system and you have something else upstairs? Do you want access to the same SSD of music files both upstairs and downstairs? If yes, then you need that library on the network. Just checking online, this looks totally doable with Innuos.
Do NOT assume though that you can pop the SSD out of the ROCK and use it elsewhere. Get a second SSD… maybe a portable USB one like from Samsung… and download all the tunes from the ROCK over the network.
You could then test just using the dCS app with the USB SSD attached to the Lina to see if that works for you… just with the dCS. If you are OK just to have streaming upstairs, then this might do. |
If you run Roon rock on anything, the OS doesn’t give you the thousands of commands in Linux that you would normally use to debug/troubleshoot the system. Roon took all of these commands out to save space and cycles. If you have a problem you are guessing on what it is and you resort to reboots. I have ran Roon for many years on real OS’s like Mac OSX and Linux with no problems. I suggest running Roon on a real computer (Mac or Linux) and see if you have the same issues. You might have outgrown your hardware with your music files. I have around 200k of music tracks and have Roon upsample everything to DSD256 (which takes more processing power from the computer) and never misses a beat. Roon sounded the best in native mode (no upsampling) running on Linux with 6 cores and 64G of memory but running Qobuz Connect directly to the streamer sounded better but the interface isn’t that good and no access to my local ripped music. Since my dac can handle dsd256 input thru i2s, I went back to running Roon on a M1 Mac and turned on upsampling to dsd256. This sounds better than QC directly. |
