Are previous versions of roon available for download?

Roon Software Discussion
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Ever since v1.8 was forced upon us, like windows 10, I have had nothing but grief. I upgraded my system with a fanless NUC a few months ago. Everything was running great until 1.8. I have reinstalled ROCK three times now. My chromecast displays no longer work. The NUC with ROCK goes into a state where its alive, but roon server will not run. I can access it via browser, I can access the external storage USB drive, and play the files via windows media player. But, roon server will not start. The reinstall via the browser interface does not fix it. So, it’s worthless, having no core…

I emailed a link to the roon server log files, on my Google drive. I will try to get some help with this. But, the beauty of Roon was that it just worked. Now, it’s become a high maintenance bitch.

A couple years ago, I could go out of town for weeks, and roon radio would just run. My dog/house sitter could push a button in any room, and listen to music on my whole house audio system. Now, I can’t enjoy my music systems without reinstalling the ROCK operating system, installing codecs, etc…

My system has multiple dacs, ropiee, DietPi, the system is all wired ethernet. USB DACs, HDMI DACs, etc. Granted, not a simple setup, but my point is, it all used work flawlessly! Now, it’s dysfunctional, and not worth a subscription. I would pay for a lifetime sub of whatever version we had back in 2019! Every update has made Roon less reliable…

I know people are having problems with 1.8. How about giving us the option to roll back the software to a version that works? Please?

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Roon have published about downgrading or rollback below:

https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/downgrading.

Where a user has no functionality and cannot play music because of an issue associated with an update then I’d suggest opening a thread in Support and explaining the relevant issue. Support staff will do what they can to ensure a user can play music pending a fix.

If you have already opened a Support thread then that is the best place to make the request.

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Did you try to install Linux on your NUC and run Roon on that?
I realise it is not the answer to your question but it might get you away from your problems for now.

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No, I haven’t tried that. I’m not very Linux savvy, but may be able to fake my way through it. I can see a full day of frustration ahead! Hahaa

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No it is not that difficult. I’m not sure if there is any specific flavour of Linux for NUC. If not just go for desktop say Ubuntu. While you got it running just run that 3 or 4 lines from Roon instruction set-up for Linux and you are done.

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Thanks Michael, I may try this… I have reinstalled rock, and it’s running now for almost two whole days! LOL

I just read a post with the identical problem, from a guy who has two nucleus units, and a lifetime membership! He’s getting the same level of support I am getting, zero, after spending almost 4,000.00 with Roon…

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Well, to be fair, putting the NUC into a different case puts you in Tinkering territory since you are not using the specified hardware. You are running a MOCK not a ROCK install. ROCK has no code for monitoring or maintaining temperatures in a fanless case, like the Nucleus version does. ROCK relies on the case fans for cooling as maintained by the BIOS.

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