@chrisbyrd , @jossen, @Adam_Stettner, @alex_weiss ----- Thank you for the reports and the feedback. I would like to test in house with a sample of media from each of you to see if I can produce the same results. May I kindly ask each of you for the following in a PM addressed to me:
A dropbox link with one song you are noticing this issue with.
A description of your setup and what settings you are using in Roon .
My apologies if any of this information needs to be repeated, I want to make sure I have everything in front of me when I got to test the content
Great. Any idea when 1.3 will be available?
It’s not a huge deal. Only applies to 9 albums out of a fairly large collection, but irritating when I go to play them.
the volume doesn’t seem as loud, it’s a bit easier to control. one issue i was always having is that the volume seemed to turn up by itself when i paused or stop playback. this seems to have addressed that.
It will allow Roon to gain exclusive use of your DAC, so it is able to output the audio stream directly. If you leave it unchecked, the stream is delivered to your operating system’s mixing device, which adds further manipulation (and sometimes – as you have seen – unwanted nastiness. :-)).
I’m having exactly this issue (and was about to create my own thread before finding this one). It only occurs when outputting the sound of 48kHz through my Mac speakers or through headphones, it’s fine through any DAC, but I’m on 1.4, so I guess the issue is still there?
(and by the way, on some such albums, Roon kind of “soft crashes”: it plays for a few seconds, then displays “no audio output found”. After a short while, the audio zones are available again.)
Ah, my apologies, I did not read the comments above properly. Making the build-in output exclusive does sort out the problem. However, the only time I ever stick my headphones straight into my Mac is when I need to hear my operating system’s alerts, so that does not do the trick for me. But I understand it’s not necessarily entirely due to Roon though.