After few days with jplay I’ve experienced, on multiple occasions, a music stream would stop, requiring play button to be hit again to resume. Limited features added to this issue and the only thing that’s left is slightly better sound quality than Roon. I’ve also heard several tracks where I couldn’t tell the difference, several where I preferred roon as the recording was pretty hot for jplay. But in most cases it sounds excellent. It’s a shame that it has glitches.
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
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A 10-year old Roon Nucleus means an I3 processor, so that could definitely impact performance, depending on your library size, whether you use DSP, etc. I have a 4 year old Sonic Orbiter 5 (Small Green Computer), and have never had any issues, other than the occasional need to reboot a streamer after a Roon update. (I have 6 separate streamers linked to the Sonic Orbiter through my my network.) |
@audphile1 similar jplay behavior as well! Frequently stops mid song, won’t play song selected, skips to next song. Have gone over the app configuration time and time again but same wonky results. |
I've been running a Roon, ROCK, Intel NUC 11 (11PAHi7), with a 20TB USB HD, a 500GB SSD, 32GB of memory and a >200k library 24/7, for over 3-yrs., minus a single hiccup. I use it for my 2-channel EMM Labs DAC audio room and to distribute multi-room music to a Marantz AV pre-pro based HT and to 3-Audio Pro A10 WiiM wi-fi speakers. For my purposes, Roon just works! |
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