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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

pgaulke60
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marcin_gps
38 posts
 

Hi, Marcin here – creator of JPLAY.

First of all, thank you for the kind words about the app. JPLAY is still relatively new and we're actively and intensively developing it. I've gone through your posts in this thread and taken notes on the feedback and feature requests you'd like to see – really appreciate you taking the time to share that.

Regarding the playback stops – I wanted to clarify that these are not glitches in the app. JPLAY acts as a remote control – it sends a command and the track URL to your streamer (UPnP renderer), and from that point it's the streamer itself that fetches and plays the audio. JPLAY does not touch the audio data at any point.

When a stream stops mid-track, it means the renderer (your streamer) momentarily lost its ability to pull the data from the network. This is typically caused by network configuration issues – things like Wi-Fi instability, or having multiple control apps running at the same time.

A few things worth trying: make sure your streamer is on a wired 1Gbit Ethernet connection, close any other control apps running in the background (including Roon), and check your router configuration (e.g. DNS settings). Rebooting router, modem and access point is sometimes worth doing. 

If you'd like help troubleshooting, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] 

Best regards,
Marcin
 

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stievus
120 posts
 

Have you considered Audirvana?

pgaulke60 OP
349 posts
 

@miles765 

Hi Ya Miles. Are your Innuos servers Roon Cores?

miles765
20 posts
 

I have run roon on the zen, but found no difference in sound or performance between the zen and roon rock on i5 nuc w/lps.
after trying several things I keep going back to innuos and the sense app.

erik_squires
17,539 posts
 

While throttling itself is a safety feature and not inherently damaging

This is true but that's not always what happens.  Thermal throttling is meant to prevent damage and minimize errors. 

Thermal throttling is not a feature every CPU has, it's a rather modern thing to find it on PC's and laptops.  In fact many CPUs have no way to self-regulate at all. They simply work until they fail.  Sometimes that's temporary, as I've experienced many times with routers, and sometimes it's permanent, and sometimes it's a matter of this particular CPU has a lower thermal failure threshold than others.  

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