Problems with Air 3

[ozthepoz]

Anyone else had any problems with Air 3? 

I should say straight away that Air 2.1.3 has worked perfectly for me and I have been very happy with it. 

I downloaded Air 3 and was blown away by the improvement in SQ - far bigger leap in performance than any of the firmware upgrades IMO. 

However, it does crash after about 5 minutes of listening - totally freezes so that only a visit to Activity Monitor or a reboot will fix it. 

I've reverted back to 2.1.3, which is behaving very nicely, but am missing the SQ 

Tell us more about your system. It has been rock solid for me, with only an occasionally less then one second drop out in sound every third of fourth day.

My system is Mac Mini, Late 2012 model with 16GB RAM, SSD boot drive, i7 quad core processor, El Capitan, running headless. Music either on NAS, or on an SD card (64GB) and USB stick (128GB) plugged into the Mac Mini.

Mac Mini connected via ethernet, D400 connected via ethernet. Running RoonServer on Mac Mini.

Have you made sure to use something like CCleaner to remove all traces of earlier versions of AIR ( i.e. 2.1.3) on the system when using 3 Beta?

Hi baddog

I'm using a new macbook with the latest version of OSX. Music is stored on a synology, plugged into an airport extreme. The extreme is ethernet linked into my 250. 

As I mentioned 2.1.3 worked perfectly for me, but I do think there may be something in the earlier versions of Air getting in the way. I'll try that and see how I get on.