21-Feb-2019, 11:40
(13-Feb-2019, 23:20)mdconnelly Wrote: The good news... Roon RAAT is released!
The bad news (for me) is that it is not behaving well with hi-res flac. On playing pretty much any album at 192kHz, 24Bit (and sometimes with 96khz), I'm getting...
An audio file is loading slowly. This may indicate a performance or hardware problem.
The audio often drops out and occasionally the track is skipped. It is happening with both my music and with Qobuz in Roon. This also happens occasionally with 96kz, 24Bit music. I've not seen it (yet) with normal CD res music.
This is only happening via Roon RAAT. It does NOT happen with Roon AIR nor with my microRendu to USB input. In perusing the Roon forums, it seems that when others have seen this in the past, it has often been network issues. I'm running RoonServer on Win 10 i7 desktop PC on a gigibit network with structured wiring throughout my home. I've not had any issues with Roon before now (well, at least not since I got rid of Devialet AIR to use Roon AIR).
Anyone else run into this? I have posted the question on the Roon forums. I feel a need to start troubleshooting my network, but hardly know where to begin since I've not seen any network issues until this.
On the plus side, I have to concur that everything playing via my Expert Pros since the firmware/DOS upgrade has sounded better (well, except for the whole issue above ;-)
Sorry to hear about this, certainly annoying. I recently revamped my small network in hopes of improving performance, and saw similar issues. I hope this hasn't been posted already, but to solve my issues, I gave my ROCK CORE as well as Expert Pro static IPs, and locked them in with the router settings. I also changed the DNS in the CORE settings to use Google's service (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). The remote, the ROCK, everything is faster now. It actually queues up RAAT tracks too quickly sometimes—it'll cut off the first half-second or so of the first song I choose in a new playlist. My Expert Pro is connected via WiFi.
I've been fiddling with Wireshark and standard ping in the terminal to check up on my new network—I experience zero dropouts or anomalies, but am curious about packet loss, signal strength, etc. Try pinging both your core machine and your Expert Pro. Take your network apart and put it back together again as simply as possible.
Then again, I may be completely wrong here. Just something to try perhaps.
