AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[Damon]

Well, I wasted several hours this evening trying to get this working, but it turns out to be an even bigger pile of sh*t than the previous incarnations. If this is the best that the arrogant ****heads can come up with in 2 years then there is no hope. They have clearly not invested one iota of effort in making sure that this plays nicely with Roon, with the result that it keeps hanging my Mac to the point of requiring a hard reset. I can't even comment on SQ - the bloody thing wouldn't play long enough for me to go downstairs and sit in front of my speakers. Utterly, utterly pathetic. Devialet can go to hell, and soon.
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Why should they not?  It has been requested by any number of people from this forum and elsewhere. Even if they arrogantly choose not to become "Roon Ready" their virtual sound card should be stable enough not to crash the OS at the slightest provocation. They have had long enough to get it right by now.

Clearly you're pissed, but I also don't see why they would put effort into integrating one out of many music/ file managers. Some want it, plenty of others don't. Roon hasn't even been in existence for two years, so bitching about lack of extensive testing is not very logical. There are plenty of positive comments on this forum, so they clearly have put a good deal of time into this release. What about all the other music file players? Roon might not even be in existence in in 6 months. Tidal nearly went tits-up and there has been a great demand for native Tidal integration on plenty of hardware products.

Sonos can't make their products consistently reliable (in my system) and they've been at it for longer than Devialet has been a company. I've wasted hours on Sonos; far more time than I've ever had to spend getting the Devialet to work.  AIR3 and Roon don't play nicely in your system, but the fault could be with Roon, or with some other part of your system. There are hardly two identical systems on this forum; its impossible for any company to build something that will work with every possible iteration or combination of hardware and software.  

hk630 makes a good point about the sharing of software and code; who knows what they do or don't make available. And finally, it may be that Roon or some other music player will be integrated in the future.