Core Infinity board

[Pim]

White noise & BSOD aren't, AFAIA, anything to do with AIR per se.
They were Devialets poor coding of a virtual soundcard.

Another vendor writing something from scratch, and not via the soundcard route, makes bsod and white noise impossible/improbable- unless the underlying protocol of Devialet hardware are buggy themselves. Even then I doubt bsod is even possible.

My guess is crackles are a buffering issue and I very much doubt we'll see that from Roon longer term although I note a couple have sprung up on their forums - which could perhaps be bugs, teething or network issues.

I've had crackles. When  I go to Settings > Library > Background Audio Analysis speed, It's currently analysing 5667 out of 82027 songs. The speed is set at throttled but I assume that all I need to do is ask that little bit more from my processor and it just can't keep up. So tonight I'm going to set it to full speed and hope it will catch up. I assume that once the whole analysing job is done, all that will happen is the odd update.

As a result of my enthusiasm, a mate of mine just signed up to Tidal and Roon. He uses a Sonos system and he also has crackles. Today is his first day so it might be for the same reason. He's got pretty slow internet though. That could be a problem too of course. But at least it shows crackles aren't confined to AIR alone.

Edit: I'm about to go to bed so I increased the analysing speed. I was about to write here that it still works but as soon as I started typing the music stopped 
Time for bed.