AIR 3 Beta for Mac

[Zappydev]

Just wanted to share a quick follow up on my experiences with Roon/Tidal/Air3/D200. I tried the recommended settings as per this forum with latest Roon, and still fail to play with Roon/Air3. Music stops completely after a few minutes and I cannot quit air (it is hanging and impossible to force-quit). This time my mac did not shut down though. So I gave up on Roon/Air3, and tried playing directly from Tidal (also in Hifi mode) and this works faultlessly so far(!). No cracking and sounds great. It seems that I have to start using Tidal again for some time, but at least the D200 is playing music through Air although not with my favourite piece of software (Roon). Quite happy that at least Tidal/Air3 is working This keeps me optimistic that the software engineers of Devialet will have found a proper solution for all(?) issues, including Roon, when the public version of Air3 is released.    
All the best, Erlend

Hi eag

Just double checking that in Roon you were using maximum hardware buffer and power-of-two buffer settings? These seem to be critical in getting AIR3b to work.

Hi Zappydev,

Yes, I have a tick mark in all four boxes: Exclusive mode, Integer mode, Max hardware buffer, Use power-of-two. I set Private zone off, PCM to disabled, fixed volume, and 0.1 sec resync delay. In Air3 app I set device buffer to 1000ms. I run Roon on OSX10.9.5 late 2013 macbook pro (connected by wifi to airport Timecapsule + ethernet cable directly from time capsule to devialet 200).

Hi eag - indeed, those are exactly the settings that I and others have been using with great success. Although AIR2.x was all but unusable for me, since installing AIR3b my system has been incredibly robust. I am sorry that you are struggling, but for me, the benefits of Roon justify a bit of fiddling around to get it working, and I am so happy that I persevered when things didn't go right at the beginning. I hope you will find success too.